Canadian actress Claire Brosseau is in so much pain from “unbearable,” long-term mental illness that she has petitioned a ...

Experts have raised concerns about Australia’s use of involuntary ECT, but some are adamant about its impact on people with ...

A randomized trial published in the American Journal of Psychiatry has found that magnetic seizure therapy (MST) achieved ...

Stimulating the brain's self-control center via rTMS reduces smoking by 11 cigarettes a day, outperforming reward-suppression ...

The treatment consists of a Bluetooth headset that patients can connect to an app on their smartphones. It could mark a ...

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which involves passing electricity through the brain under general anesthesia to cause a seizure, usually between six and 12 times, is used to varying degrees around ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most controversial therapies used in medicine today. While some psychiatrists believe that ECT is an effective, life-saving psychiatric treatment, others ...

Brain-stimulating contact lenses are as effective as Prozac at treating depression in mice via retinal pathways.