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Letter to the Editor: Electrode placement in electroconvulsive therapy – bilateral is still the ‘gold standard’ for some patients: a reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2017

E. Kolshus ,
A. Jelovac  and
D. M. McLoughlin
E. Kolshus*
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
A. Jelovac
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
D. M. McLoughlin
Affiliation:
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
*
*Address for correspondence: E. Kolshus, Ph.D., MRCPsych, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. (Email: [email protected])
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 47 , Issue 8 , June 2017 , pp. 1512 - 1513
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