After months of me trying to help this patient, a cure I had hoped to bring [via psychotherapy] had not been achieved at all. Instead, a harsh, drastic, mechanical shock machine, rather than a warm, ...

After reading 3,000 Pulses Later in 48 hours, two questions pounded in my head. How does a psychiatrist determine whether TMS (trans-cranial magnetic stimulation) or ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is ...

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 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 ...

Patients treated with VNS appeared to experience a 60% reduction in all-cause mortality, but the small sample sizes limit the reliability of these findings. In contrast to ECT—which has been in ...

"I'm taking medication, but I'm not really getting any better.""I heard there are treatments called TMS and electroconvulsive ...

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 ...

Researchers used data from Swedish nationwide registers of more than 300 patients with schizophrenia (mean age, 48 years; 64% men) who received both inpatient ECT and non-ECT treatment between 2011 ...

Electroshock therapy peaked in the 1940s and 1950s. But the controversial practice - with patients sometimes shocked while fully awake and without muscle relaxants - has not disappeared. Today it is ...

Age, gender, and insurance type were associated with length of hospital stay during electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) management for bipolar disorder, according to study data presented at Psych Congress ...

Patients and family members of those who have undergone electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) reported a mixed bag of information being given beforehand. According to a survey of 858 ECT recipients, 59% ...