A shift in personality for a 14-year-old with autism led his family on a multi-year journey to find out what had happened to ...

also known as ECT. In popular culture it has another name: shock therapy. “For depression, I will say that it is the most effective treatment that we have in psychiatry,” said one member of ...

Dr Read describes previous research justifying the use of ECT as 'the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career' The use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat depression should ...

We're still investigating the mechanisms of how ECT works. Part of that understanding is informed by our view of depression, which now is as a disorder of neurocircuits different parts of the ...

A 39-year-old man with a reactive depression was first seen in August, 1946. After five treatments of electroshock, given between December 10 and 20, he improved and gained 8 pounds. Later in that ...

“I think depression is something we don’t really ... She said she’d exhausted all options, including electroconvulsive therapy, when a doctor told her about DBS three years ago.

Depression treatments can include psychotherapy, medications, and other treatments, such as light therapy and electroconvulsive therapy. Treatment can vary depending on the person and type of ...

They used this technique successfully on dogs and in April 1938, they applied electroshock to their first human patient. This extremely schizophrenic man was able to live an apparently normal life ...