Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica
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Acta Psychiatr Scand · Mar 1987
Left-side preference in holding and carrying newborn infants. A three-year follow-up study.
Observation of maternal infant holding was made during the postnatal week. Among 264 observed mothers 37 were right-holding and 35 could be traced 3 years later. ⋯ Other between group differences were also found illustrating a greater need for support and more anxiety about their children among right-holding mothers. Maternal parity seemed to have a stronger correlation to maternal anxiety about her child than did side preference for holding during the lying-in period.
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Acta Psychiatr Scand · Mar 1987
Case ReportsA successful electroconvulsive treatment of neuroleptic malignant syndrome.
A case of neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) treated successfully with electroconvulsive therapy (ETC) is described. Repeated exposures of the patients to succinylcholine during ECT did not cause malignant hyperthermia. The efficacy of ECT is probably related to its facilitatory effect upon dopamine (DA) activity in CNS.