Evaluating Treatment Methods for Depressive Disorders

WILLIAM W. K. ZUNGAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124, Number 11S

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.11S.40

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The authors describe a retrospective study to evaluate ECT and antidepressant drugs in the hospital treatment of depressive disorders. Using the Self-Rating Depression Scale as a measure of severity of illness, they found that patients selected for ECT were more depressed than patients selected for drug treatment. Comparison of data obtained from the two groups indicated that the "kinetics of treatment response" and the final treatment results obtained with ECT were superior to those obtained with antidepressant drugs.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124 • Number 11S • May 1968

Pages: 40 - 48

PubMed: 4872233

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Published in print: May 1968

Published online: 1 April 2006

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WILLIAM W. K. ZUNG

Clinical investigator, department of psychiatry, Veterans Administration Hospital, Durham, N. C., and assistant professor, department of psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N. C. 27706

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