Leading psychiatry groups say WHO guidance on ECT risks stigmatizing and reducing access to a safe, effective, and sometimes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Electroconvulsive therapy for depression did not lead to a clinically significant increased risk for serious ...

Leading international professional associations have issued a joint statement taking a clear stance on electroconvulsive ...

Leading international professional associations have issued a joint statement taking a clear stance on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and calling for a scientific and evidence-based presentation of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Electroconvulsive therapy appeared to be superior to ketamine for improving depression severity in the acute ...

Against a backdrop of childhood abuse, Wanda Rupp built a happy life — with the love of a husband, her two children and a satisfying career — until one day darkness came over her and brought ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) uses an electric current to treat serious mental disorders. (National Institutes of Health image) Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is a procedure done under ...

Each year, more than 100,000 Americans undergo electroconvulsive therapy, also known as "electroshock treatment" and "shock therapy." Electroconvulsive therapy may seem like it's from medieval times, ...

Most patients with mania responded to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a Swedish population-based study found. Among 571 individuals who were in a manic episode, 482 (84.4%) responded to treatment ...

We’re still a far ways off from the kind of memory erasure portrayed in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but a recent experiment has just taken us one step closer. By using ...

One early morning in April 1938, a team of Italian medical researchers readied themselves to do one of the most controversial things that medicine had ever seen. Tucked away on the first floor of a ...

A professional engineer working at a major employer in the Kansas City area was struggling with severe anxiety and depression. He was contemplating suicide. "I specifically remember saying, ‘Well, you ...