Short- and long-term evaluation of cognitive functions after electroconvulsive therapy in a Japanese population.

Shunsuke TakagiTakashi TakeuchiNaoki YamamotoMunehisa FujitaKo FurutaHiroyo IshikawaNobutaka MotohashiToru Nishikawa
Published in: Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences (2017)
In a Japanese population, adverse effects of ECT on verbal fluency function-related and other cognitive impairments were transient. Over the longer term, we detected significant improvements in the performance of tasks that presumably reflected information processing speed and executive functions.