학술논문

Electroconvulsive Therapy in a Depressive Patient with Comorbid Parkinson Disease
Document Type
article
Source
Çukurova Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol 39, Iss 1, Pp 185-188 (2014)
Subject
Depression
Parkinson disease
electrokonvulsif therapy
elder
Medicine
Medicine (General)
R5-920
Language
English
Turkish
ISSN
0250-5150
Abstract
Parkinson’s disease can be defined as a neurophsiciatric disease which is basicly a dismotilite disease, often with affective cognitive and phsycotic disorder. Depression is the most frequent psychiatric disorder in patients with Parkinson’s disease.There are several possible approaches for the treatment of depression in Parkinson disease.We can use antidepresants and conitive behavioral therapy, and can be prefer to use ECT, in the condition that, the suicidal risk of elder patient groups, disorder of the phsical condition, physicomotr retardation and insufficient response to the medicine.in this article, an ECT treatment is reported, which is about a depression attact in an elderly patient who has parkinsons disease.