Electroconvulsive therapy, one expert says, is “often approached with a reserve that cannot be explained rationally.” ...

A major international survey of people receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has found that most patients are not asked about the childhood adversities or recent life stressors that they believe ...

An international survey has revealed that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) causes a much broader and more damaging range of side effects than previously acknowledged, challenging long-held claims about ...

A woman got the wrong medical treatment. The side effects were catastrophic.

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 ...

Ultrabrief pulse (<0.5 millisecond pulse width) electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is regarded as a cognition-sparing form of ECT. Contrary to some early research, recent randomised trials have reported ...

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), a common and debilitating mental disorder, contributes considerably to global disease burden by increasing rates of comorbid physical illnesses, functional impairment, ...

I have previously reported, here, on several papers from our international survey of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) recipients and relatives/friends, which concluded that: Most respondents found the ...

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