Improvement in both severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and refractory tardive dystonia following electroconvulsive therapy: A case report.

Our report highlights the following two points: when TDt is associated with severe OCD, and the effect of pharmacotherapy is inadequate, ECT may be considered as a treatment option; given the common mechanism of frontal cortex-basal dysfunction reported in both dystonia and OCD, ECT may have an effect on this pathway.