The Assessment of Cerebral Dominance with Unilateral ECT
The British Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 September 1972
R. T. C. Pratt, Elizabeth K. Warrington
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The following simple method appears to be an improvement on those previously described on the use of unilateral non-dominant ECT in place of the classical bilateral technique.
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The growing adoption (1) of unilateral non-dominant ECT in place of the classical bilateral technique requires the accurate identification of the dominant hemisphere; the following simple method appears to be an improvement on those previously described (2) (3).
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