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Maintenance ECT in Parkinson's disease

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has an anti-Parkinsonian effect. In two cases repeated single ECT, i.e. maintenance ECT (MECT), caused different, hitherto unreported positive effects. One patient had either severe mental side effects from higher L-dopa doses or intolerable parkinsonian symptoms on lower doses. MECT entailed a marked improvement in parkinsonian symptoms without mental side effects. Another patient with depression as well as Parkinson's disease who showed a slight improvement of motor symptoms after a series of ECT presented further anti-parkinsonian effects on MECT.

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Received November 12, 1998; accepted April 13, 1999

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Fall, PA., Granérus, AK. Maintenance ECT in Parkinson's disease. J Neural Transm 106, 737–741 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007020050194

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