http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/0ab066cfc865113100a3adcb91b47482.pdf 6200a4f2c9829abd6a5f3636a3fd275d PDF Text Text January 9, 1967 Dr. Richard Abrams 10” Childress Sheppard AFB, Texas 78311 Dear Dr. Abrams: I have discussed your request with Dr. Preednan and Dr. Kaplan have reviewed the experiences you have already had in relation to the study progran in the Department. I am pleased and z-a' z. : fiflfiww-vfl! we thattheChaimanhasbeenabletoaffirmthatastudypmgzun should be latter portion of your training. months the initial assignments will undertaken during the «rum-1,2- . :9 _ Deming the first few be made in those areas in which you lack specific experience as narcotic addictiOn, the mental hygiene clinic and child psychiatry. As soon as these are accomplished in a satisfactory fashion, we believe that the study program you have outlined may be undertaken. critical part of the study is in the development of EEG patterns with unilateral ECI‘. I have read the Zamora article and am mimpressed. I have requested the Martin article but have not yet seen it. Surely, your om experience becomes very critical and I wwld suggest that you outline the observations which you yourself have made regarding the EEG differences with unilateral and bilateral ECT. Especially, if The different _ you have samples of the records in subjects treated with unilateral clinically and comparing these with other ECI' showing improvement subjects of approximately the bilateral BCT. same age stoning improvement with In reading your protocol of December 6 , the introduction so is the hypothesis, Imam, of the four alternate ezqalanations, the fourth is unclear. The first is straightforward and three are quite good. "‘5"? ,HCTAFWF-thwhm"! 'I'hemethodisrelevmtandImuldonlyaddthattheEEG delta activity is to be recorded following ECI' at a specific time, hours. Your suggestion of the determinatims of CSF acetylcloline and chinesterase is a good one, but this may be the most difficult part of the study to acoanplish. probably aways-1y,» mm: ~1sz _ , ‘ V W ’2"?! 9 -.- times» Few: was: NWT): 2n �-2- Dr. Abram ~ January 9, 1967 _ At our last meetiru you suggested that you would like to collect the literature relevant to this problem. The citations which I have listed at the end of my. few reports are those that appeared to me to be most relevant. Surely, by checking these one can obtain the citations to many other articles which, perhaps should be in your library. If you wish, I would suggest thata the next opportunity for you to be inNew York that you visit with me and we can go over my collection making such notes as may be necessary to provide you with the basis for a literature review. I have not carried out a systematic survey of ECI‘ literature since 1959 and perhaps an alternate solution would be to check through the major indices for literature and ask for the articles which may have appeared in journals not ordinarily available in the major I am delighted that this study program. Good we New York libraries. will have an opportunity to undertake luck in your present programs. Sincerely yours , Pink, M.D“v’ Professor of Psychiatry Max ME‘:kp � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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