Squire L R, Slater P C
Br J Psychiatry. 1983 Jan;142:1-8. doi: 10.1192/bjp.142.1.1.
Self-reports of memory problems have been evaluated prospectively in depressed patients receiving bilateral ECT or unilateral ECT, and in depressed patients receiving treatments other than ECT. Depressed patients did not complain of poor memory at seven months after hospitalization. Compared to bilateral ECT, right unilateral ECT was associated with only mild memory complaints. At three years after treatment approximately one-half of the persons who had received bilateral ECT reported poor memory. These reports seemed to be influenced by three factors: (1) recurrence or persistence of conditions that were present before ECT; (2) the experience of amnesia initially associated with ECT and a subsequent tendency to question if memory had ever recovered; and (3) impaired memory for events that had occurred up to six months before treatment and up to about two months afterwards.
对接受双侧电休克治疗（ECT）或单侧ECT的抑郁症患者，以及接受ECT以外其他治疗的抑郁症患者的记忆问题自我报告进行了前瞻性评估。抑郁症患者在住院七个月后并未抱怨记忆力差。与双侧ECT相比，右侧单侧ECT仅伴有轻微的记忆问题主诉。治疗三年后，接受双侧ECT的患者中约有一半报告记忆力差。这些报告似乎受三个因素影响：（1）ECT治疗前存在的病情复发或持续；（2）最初与ECT相关的失忆经历以及随后质疑记忆力是否曾恢复的倾向；（3）治疗前长达六个月以及治疗后约两个月内发生事件的记忆受损。
