A new international online survey published in the Journal of Affective Disorders gives voice to the lived experiences of ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock therapy, involves inducing a brief seizure in the brain using controlled doses of electricity. While ECT is highly effective for certain ...

Dr. McDonald answers the question: 'Who Would Perform Shock Therapy On Me?' — -- Question: What does the procedure of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) involve and what kinds of doctors perform it?

Budapest, Hungary — Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) dramatically improves disease severity and depressive symptoms in patients with severe mental illness, results of a large, naturalistic study showed ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock therapy, involves inducing a brief seizure in the brain using controlled doses of electricity. While ECT is highly effective for certain ...

This post is part two in a series. Part one is titled "Treating the Seriously Mentally Ill." I was called to evaluate Dorothy after she had been admitted to the ward from the ER, where her family had ...

At 36 years old, Cody Harris is starting a new life. Harris has suffered from severe depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder since he was seven years old. For nearly ...

The medical pros of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are being exaggerated while the risks are being downplayed, suggest the findings of a survey on the type of information patients and their relatives ...

Five co-researchers and I have just launched the first-ever international survey of people who have received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), called electroshock therapy in the United States. The ...

"In practice, we often maintain patients on antidepressants, but in order to do the most rigorous test of the efficacy of MST as a monotherapy, we needed to test it alone, without concurrent ...