Electroconvulsive Therapy and Complaints of
Memory Dysfunction: A Prospective Three-Year follow-up Study
Br J Psychiatry 1983 Jan;142:1-8
Author(s):Squire LR; Slater PC
Abstract: Self-reports of memory problems have been evaluated prospectively
in depressed patients receiving bilateral ECT or unilateral ECT, and in
depressed patients receiving treatments other than ECT. Depressed patients did
not complain of poor memory at seven months after hospitalization. Compared to
bilateral ECT, right unilateral ECT was associated with only mild memory
complaints. At three years after treatment approximately one-half of the persons
who had received bilateral ECT reported poor memory. These reports seemed to be
influenced by three factors: (1) recurrence or persistence of conditions that
were present before ECT; (2) the experience of amnesia initially associated with
ECT and a subsequent tendency to question if memory had ever recovered; and (3)
impaired memory for events that had occurred up to six months before treatment
and up to about two months afterwards.
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