Improving ECT practice with a care pathway: hits and misses.

Objective. To evaluate the effectiveness of a care pathway for the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in a UK psychiatric inpatient unit. Methods.

Anxiety can be a harbinger of early onset dementia.

We report an interesting case study of a 58-year-old woman who had early onsct dementis which initially presented with marked features of anxiety that masked her cognitive impairment. She was treated for anxiety for about 2 years. Her anxiety symptoms caused hindrance in detecting dementis at the early stage.