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Article on ECT Research Makes Top 10 Most-Read List

An article by a collaborative research group from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School's Department of Psychiatry was ranked number 5 on a list of the "Top 10" most read and clinically relevant Psychiatry & Mental Health journal articles of 2007" from Medscape's Best Evidence newsletter. The article, "Continuation Electroconvulsive Therapy vs. Pharmacotherapy for Relapse Prevention in Major Depression", was published in the Archives of General Psychiatry and featured in a commentary in the July 18th issue of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The article discussed a trial designed to compare the efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to pharmacologic treatment in the prevention of depression relapse. Dr. Charles Kellner, department chair and assistant dean for clinical research, is the first author; and Drs. Georgios Petrides, Chitra Malur and Kevin O'Connor, also in the Department of Psychiatry, are co-authors.

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