Unilateral ECT as a Test for Cerebral Dominance, with a Strategy for Treating Left-handers
The British Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 July 1971
R. T. C. Pratt, Elizabeth K. Warrington, A. M. Halliday
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Abstract
The growing adoption of ECT given unilaterally to the right hemisphere in right-handed patients, in preference to the classical bilateral treatment, is due to its shortening of the duration of post-treatment confusion, to its superiority in preserving memory and learning assessed three months after the start of treatment (Halliday et al. , 1968) and to its therapeutic equivalence. (For a critical assessment of published results, see d'Elia, 1970.)
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