Bifrontal and Bitemporal Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) in Treatment of Patients With Schizophrenia

Exclusion Criteria

• •The lack of patient's consent
• •Mental retardation confirmed with the psychological and psychiatric examination (IQ\<70; fulfilled DSM-V criteria for mental retardation)
• •Dementia diagnosed on the basis of DSM-V criteria
• •Substance abuse during the year prior study enrolment or substance addiction
• •The presence of symptoms which met DSM-V criteria for affective episode (an episode of mania, hypomania or depression)
• •The ECT conducted during 6 months prior the study enrolment
• •The history of previous ineffective ECT
• •The need for antipsychotic treatment other than derivatives of dibenzothiazepines or in doses higher than 450mg of clozapine, 20mg of olanzapine and 600mg of quetiapine per day
• •The women in the generative period who do not use effective contraception (sexual abstinence, contraceptives, intrauterine device, mechanical contraceptive devices)
• •The need for use of other than suxamethonium chloride, propofol and atropine anaesthetics and concomitant medications