A scene in the new season of Netflix's show "Beef," about a high health insurance deductible, illustrates a pain many ...

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Inducing seizures can reset the brain in cases of severe depression, but the cost to memory has always been high. A large-scale trial led by researchers at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health ...

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 ...

Dolores Orrico watched her psychiatrist flip a switch and turn a knob. She stared hard as adjustments were made to the machine that’d soon send her into a seizure. She was lying in a bed on the second ...

The third paper 1 from our international survey of 1,144 electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) recipients and family members is now published, in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Ethical Human ...

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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 ...

An international survey of ECT recipients found that over half felt they weren't given adequate information about the treatment beforehand. Many patients remember being told that ECT was safe and that ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was associated with significantly greater response and remission rates in people aged 85 years or older with depression than in those aged 18-35 years and with fewer ...

As a psychiatry resident, he became convinced of the benefits of ECT. But he spent years battling detractors and a misleading pop-culture depiction of the procedure. By Richard Sandomir Max Fink, a ...

Treatment with ECT showed a significant decrease in the odds of suicide (odds ratio [OR], 0.66) and for death from all causes (OR, 0.70). HealthDay News — Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) shows a ...