Electroconvulsive Therapy

Harold A. Sackeim, D. P. Devanand, and Mitchell S. Nobler
Department of Biological Psychiatry
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York State Psychiatric Institute
New York, New York 10032.


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