How electroconvulsive therapy works?: understanding the neurobiological mechanisms

A Singh, SK Kar - Clinical Psychopharmacology and …, 2017 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a time tested treatment modality for the management of
various psychiatric disorders. There have been a lot of modifications in the techniques of …

Implicative role of epidermal growth factor receptor and its associated signaling partners in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

PK Jayaswamy, M Vijaykrishnaraj, P Patil… - Ageing Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) plays a pivotal role in early brain development,
although its expression pattern declines in accordance with the maturation of the active …

Electroconvulsive therapy for anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis: a systematic review of cases

N Warren, V Grote, C O'Gorman, D Siskind - Brain Stimulation, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis most commonly presents with psychiatric
symptoms such as behavioural disturbance, catatonia and psychosis. Although the primary …

Anti-N-Methyl d-Aspartate Receptor Encephalitis and Electroconvulsive Therapy: Literature Review and Future Directions.

YC Tanguturi, AW Cundiff, C Fuchs - Child and Adolescent …, 2018 - europepmc.org
Despite the majority of patients with anti-N-methyl d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antibody
encephalitis presenting with catatonic symptoms, the literature has not focused on well …

Dysfunction in the coagulation system and schizophrenia

S Hoirisch-Clapauch, OB Amaral… - Translational …, 2016 - nature.com
Although different hypotheses have been formulated to explain schizophrenia pathogenesis,
the links between them are weak. The observation that five psychotic patients on chronic …

Electroconvulsive therapy in anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis: a case report and review of the literature

MJ Coffey, JJ Cooper - The Journal of ECT, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives There is a growing scientific literature describing the neuropsychiatric symptoms
of anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor encephalitis, including the use of …

Propofol alleviates electroconvulsive shock-induced memory impairment by modulating proBDNF/mBDNF ratio in depressive rats

F Zhang, J Luo, S Min, L Ren, P Qin - Brain Research, 2016 - Elsevier
This study investigated the effects of propofol and electroconvulsive shock (ECS), the
analogue of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in animals, on tissue plasminogen activator …

Electroconvulsive therapy and seizure: a double-edged sword?

HR Shin, M Kim, KI Park - Encephalitis, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a widely used therapeutic option of drug-refractory
psychiatric disorders. ECT treats psychiatric symptoms by inducing brief controlled seizures …

The principles of electroconvulsive therapy based on correlations of schizophrenia and epilepsy: a view from brain networks

Q Li, S Liu, M Guo, CX Yang, Y Xu - Frontiers in Neurology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was established based on Meduna's hypothesis that there
is an antagonism between schizophrenia and epilepsy, and that the induction of a seizure …

[HTML][HTML] Improvement of psychotic symptoms and the role of tissue plasminogen activator

S Hoirisch-Clapauch, AE Nardi - International journal of molecular …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) mediates a number of processes that are pivotal for
synaptogenesis and remodeling of synapses, including proteolysis of the brain extracellular …