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    Electroconvulsive Therapy: Indications, Use and Adverse Effects

    In this chapter, we discuss indications, pre-ECT evaluations, concurrent use of ECT and psychotropic medications, right unilateral ultra-brief pulse wave ECT, methods of ECT administration, adverse reactions, ...

    Suck Won Kim M.D., Jon E. Grant M.D., J.D., M.P.H. in The Medical Basis of Psychiatry (2016)

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    Sexual Disorders: Dysfunction, Gender Identity and Paraphilias

    Sexual disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for DSM-5 are divided into three major categories: 1) sexual dysfunctions, problems in sexual desire or disturbances in the psychophysiologic changes t...

    Jon E. Grant M.D., J.D., M.P.H., Nancy C. Raymond M.D. in The Medical Basis of Psychiatry (2016)

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    Profiles in History of Neuroscience and Psychiatry

    From the work of physicians, anatomists, and philosophers from the Medieval and Renaissance eras to the vast expansion of knowledge on brain anatomy and functioning during the 19th and early 20th century to th...

    Timothy D. Folsom M.S., Amelia Merz M.D. in The Medical Basis of Psychiatry (2016)