Commentary Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 4 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.46439/Psychiatry.1.018
Electroconvulsive therapy in the elderly: An update
Justin P. Meyer1,*, Kachikwulu A. Ajulu1
- 1Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, 4900 Broad Rd Syracuse, NY 13215 United States
Corresponding Author
Justin P. Meyer, meyerj@upstate.edu
Received Date: July 06, 2021
Accepted Date: August 24, 2021
Meyer JP, Ajulu KA. Electroconvulsive therapy in the elderly: An update. Curr Res Psychiatry. 2021; 1(4):56-58.
Copyright: © 2021 Meyer JP, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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