Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Electroconvulsive therapy and determination of cerebral dominance. | Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry BioMed Central Review Electroconvulsive therapy and determination of cerebral dominance Milan Dragovic1 Lindsay Allet2 and Aleksandar Janca 2 3 Open Access Address 1Centre for Clinical Research in Neuropsychiatry Graylands Hospital Perth Australia 2Inner City Mental Health Service Royal Perth Hospital Perth Australia and 3School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences University of Western Australia Perth Australia Email Milan Dragovic - milan@ Lindsay Allet - Aleksandar Janca - ajanca@ Corresponding author Published 12 August 2004 Received 30 June 2004 Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry 2004 3 14 doi l475-2832-3-l4 Accepted 12 August 2004 This article is available from http content 3 l 14 2004 Dragovic et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Electroconvulsive therapy ECT often results in a number of short- and long-time side effects including memory impairment for past and current events which can last for several months after ECT treatment. It has been suggested that unilateral ECT uECT with electrodes placed over the non-dominant typically right hemisphere significantly reduces side effects especially memory disturbances. It is important to note that cerebral dominance equates to speech dominance and avoiding this area of the brain also reduces speech dysfunction after ECT. Traditionally the routine clinical determination of cerebral dominance has been through the assessment of hand foot and eye dominance which is an easy and inexpensive approach that however does not ensure accuracy. This review of literature on different methods and techniques for .
