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Efficacy and safety of maintenance electroconvulsive therapy for sustaining resolution of severe aggression in a major neurocognitive disorder

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  • Melanie Isabella Selvadurai DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Burlington, Ontario, CanadaDepartment of Psychiatry, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Whitby, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Robyn Waxman Department of Psychiatry, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Whitby, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Omar Ghaffar Department of Psychiatry, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Whitby, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ilan Fischler Department of Psychiatry, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Whitby, Ontario, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Robyn Waxman, waxmanro{at}ontarioshores.ca
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Selvadurai MI, Waxman R, Ghaffar O, et al
Efficacy and safety of maintenance electroconvulsive therapy for sustaining resolution of severe aggression in a major neurocognitive disorder
Case Reports 2018;2018:bcr-2017-222100.

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  • Accepted December 16, 2017
  • First published January 5, 2018.
Online issue publication 
January 05, 2018

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