Prolactin Response to Pentylenetetrazol (Cardiazol) Convulsive Therapy. 1989

Mihály Arató, and Ede Frecska, and Gyöngyi Solti
National Institute for Nervous and Mental Diseases, Budapest, Hungary.

Epileptic grand mal seizures as well as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) induce a transient robust prolactin hypersecretion. Similar prolactin response has been demonstrated following pentylenetetrazol (Cardiazol)-induced seizures in two schizophrenic female patients. A slight increase in cortisol secretion but no change in thyroid stimulating hormone and growth hormone levels suggest that the prolactin response is a specific hormonal change during convulsive treatments.

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