Author:
Havens Leston L.,Harty J. Frank,Cawte John E.
Abstract
The autonomic nervous system activity that has been observed to accompany grand mal epilepsy does not occur consistently with the seizures produced by electric convulsive treatment. The dilated pupils, flushing, lacrimation and gooseflesh which appear during the tonic spasm of the electrically induced seizure, and which are the outward manifestations of the autonomic storm within, are often not readily observed because of their transience; they begin to fade almost as soon as they appear and may be gone with the onset of the clonic spasm. Different patients exhibit them in different degrees and the same individual may show changes in the amount of autonomic response over a course of treatments.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
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