Structural and functional neuroimaging methods in the diagnosis of dementias: a retrospective chart and brain imaging review.

Objective: Assess the contribution of structural and functional neuroimaging methods to the diagnosis of dementia.

Methods: This was a retrospective chart and imaging review. Participants were 24 inpatient dementia cases from a general hospital-based, university medical psychiatry unit.

Electroconvulsive therapy and venous angiomas: two case reports and review of the literature.

According to the American Psychiatric Association, the risk for complications related to the electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatment of patients with cerebrovascular malformations is small. The literature contains a number of case studies presenting the uneventful treatment of patients with cerebral aneurysms with ECT. However, there is a paucity of cases presenting ECT in the context of a cerebral venous angioma.