Leading psychiatry groups say WHO guidance on ECT risks stigmatizing and reducing access to a safe, effective, and sometimes ...

Patients getting ECT today receive anesthesia and muscle relaxation before their treatments, so they're asleep the whole time. They receive an electrical stimulation to induce a brief brain seizure.

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 ...

Of all treatments in contemporary psychiatry, perhaps none is more commonly misunderstood than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Its depiction in the popular media and in movies such as One Flew Over ...

Electroconvulsive therapy, “the most effective treatment for depression,” is returning to Windsor after a one-year shutdown that had a terrible impact on at least one severely depressed local woman.