Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electroconvulsive therapy involves inducing a controlled seizure under anesthesia. Inkoly/iStock via Getty Images Plus When most ...

A newer brain stimulation therapy matched ECT for depression while causing less memory loss, offering a potential option for patients concerned about cognitive side effects.

A randomized trial published in the American Journal of Psychiatry has found that magnetic seizure therapy (MST) achieved ...

Experts have raised concerns about Australia’s use of involuntary ECT, but some are adamant about its impact on people with ...

Researchers have found that Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT), where an electric current is passed through the brain, can reduce the severity of mental illnesses. The use of ECT across Scotland was ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial practice, with recent research finding harm, as well as a lack of efficacy and informed consent. A new A new international study finds most relatives ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which involves passing electricity through the brain under general anesthesia to cause a seizure, usually between six and 12 times, is used to varying degrees around ...

When Caroline Marinaro was advised that electroconvulsive therapy might be able to help the severe depression she has had for 20 years, her first thought was of actor Jack Nicholson violently shaking ...

"In practice, we often maintain patients on antidepressants, but in order to do the most rigorous test of the efficacy of MST as a monotherapy, we needed to test it alone, without concurrent ...