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A woman with depression and cerebral cortical laceration caused by a self-inflicted gunshot wound received ECT 3 weeks after wounding herself and had no untoward effects. The authors discuss relative contraindications to ECT based on head injury and posttraumatic seizures.
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Ruedrich et al. (1983) studied this question.
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