The Assessment of Cerebral Dominance with Unilateral ECT
Authors:
- R. T. C. PrattRPR. T. C. Pratt
- Elizabeth K. WarringtonEWElizabeth K. Warrington
- 1 September 1972
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 121 (562) , 327-328
Abstract
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).Keywords
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