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Changes in Catechol Amine Response to Successive Electric Convulsive Treatments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Leston L. Havens ,
M. Sheref Zileli ,
Alberto DiMascio ,
Lenore Boling  and
Alan Goldfien
Leston L. Havens
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School
M. Sheref Zileli
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Alberto DiMascio
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Boston Psychopathic Hospital)
Lenore Boling
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Boston Psychopathic Hospital)
Alan Goldfien
Affiliation:
Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
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Changes in sympathetic nervous system responses have been noted to accompany changes in psychological states during psychiatric treatment. Funkenstein, Greenblatt and Solomon, observing the blood pressure response to epinephrine and methacholine, have reported a change in blood pressure patterns on the part of patients who benefited from electric shock treatment (1). Gellhorn has presented evidence that improvement in the psychoses is associated with heightened sympathetic reactivity (2).

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 440 , July 1959 , pp. 821 - 829
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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