The place for electroconvulsive therapy in the management of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia

Rajesh R Tampi; Deena J Tampi; Juan Young; Rakin Hoq; Kyle Resnick

doi:10.2217/nmt-2019-0018

The place for electroconvulsive therapy in the management of behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia

Neurodegener Dis Manag. 2019 Nov 8. doi: 10.2217/nmt-2019-0018. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Rajesh R Tampi^{1

2}, Deena J Tampi³, Juan Young⁴, Rakin Hoq⁵, Kyle Resnick⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, OH 44307, USA.
² Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.
³ Diamond Healthcare, Richmond, VA 23219, USA.
⁴ Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
⁵ Summa Health Systems/NEOMED Psychiatry Residency Program, Akron, OH 44304, USA.

PMID: 31701804
DOI: 10.2217/nmt-2019-0018

No abstract available

Keywords: behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD); disruptive vocalization; electroconvulsive therapy (ECT); neuropsychiatric symptoms; physical aggression; postictal confusion.

Publication types

Editorial