You've probably heard the term "shock treatment" used to describe electroconvulsive therapy or ECT. Psychiatrists don't like the term because of the stigma surrounding it, which they say prevents the ...

A new international online survey published in the Journal of Affective Disorders gives voice to the lived experiences 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 be ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for the treatment of severe mental illness in adolescents is safe, effective, and robust, new research suggests. A 20-year retrospective study by ...

Dr. McDonald answers the question: 'What Is Maintenance Shock Therapy?' — -- Question: How long will I need to do electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and what is maintenance ECT? Answer: ECT is ...

Longer seizures during the first electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) session was linked with a greater likelihood of remission in major depressive disorder, a population-based cohort study suggested. In ...

For years, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been a lifesaving treatment for patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD), yet exactly how it works has largely remained a mystery. Now ...

When seriously depressed patients don’t respond to antidepressants, the alternatives are limited. Now a new study has found that ketamine performs at least as well as the current gold standard for ...

ECT response–guided sequential strategy. This strategy comprises two phases. In the initial phase, the goal is to exploit the advantage of ECT in rapidly inducing mood improvement and then to ...

Dr Read describes previous research justifying the use of ECT as 'the lowest quality of any I have seen in my 40-year career' ECT involves passing electric currents through a patient's brain to cause ...