Dr. McDonald answers the question: 'Who Would Perform Shock Therapy On Me?' — -- Question: What does the procedure of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) involve and what kinds of doctors perform it?

At 36 years old, Cody Harris is starting a new life. Harris has suffered from severe depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder since he was seven years old. For nearly ...

The medical pros of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are being exaggerated while the risks are being downplayed, suggest the findings of a survey on the type of information patients and their relatives ...

Budapest, Hungary — Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) dramatically improves disease severity and depressive symptoms in patients with severe mental illness, results of a large, naturalistic study showed ...

I have previously written here about the efficacy and risks of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the information ECT patients are given, its regulation, and its use on children. Last year, I announced ...

On July 25, 1972, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri revealed that he had received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for depression in the 1960s. After initially ...

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 ...

The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut legislature is weighing a bill to extend the period of authorization to treat a person with electric shock therapy either with or without their consent.