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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electroconvulsive therapy involves inducing a controlled seizure under anesthesia. Inkoly/iStock via Getty Images Plus When most ...

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

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 ...

As part of Hackensack Meridian Health‘s $30 million investment to expand behavioral health services at Raritan Bay Medical Center, the Perth Amboy facility’s Carrier Behavioral Health center has added ...

June 23, 2010 (Boca Raton, Florida) — Adding electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to clozapine is an effective treatment for patients with clozapine-resistant schizophrenia, researchers reported at the New ...

When Caroline Marinaro was advised that electroconvulsive therapy might be able to help the severe depression she has had for 20 years, her first thought was of actor Jack Nicholson violently shaking ...

Electroconvulsive therapy, commonly known as ECT, is a controversial method of treating people with mental disorders by exposing their brains to electric currents. The electric current induces ...

JOHNSTON – Bradley Hospital clinicians had pretty much exhausted all other treatment options when they decided to consider electroconvulsive therapy, commonly called ECT, for young Ava Cassino, who ...

The Showtime drama "Yellowjackets" has repeatedly received praise for its portrayal of trauma, but a recent episode in particular has people buzzing. In it, we see that Simone Kessell's Lottie was so ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In June 2015, Jeffrey Thelen’s parents noticed their son was experiencing problems with his memory. In the subsequent years, he would get lost driving to ...