Journal
JOURNAL OF ECT
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 145-147Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/YCT.0b013e3181eb30b3
Keywords
electroconvulsive therapy; Gilles de la Tourette syndrome; high-frequency deep brain stimulation
Categories
Ask authors/readers for more resources
To avoid chronic distress and increasing social isolation, patients with severe, medication-resistant Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) require treatment alternatives. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is such an alternative treatment, which, however, is rarely mentioned in the literature: a Pubmed search revealed only 7 reports on GTS and ECT, and there were no long-term data on continuously applied maintenance ECT in GTS. This report is the first to document a 5-year-long, full remission from severe GTS after long-term ECT.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available