Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of women in England with mental health problems are being given electric shock treatment despite concerns the therapy ...

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.

Electroconvulsive therapy used to be called electroshock therapy and it was developed in 1938 to treat certain mental disorders. Its history is not a rosy one. “It’s earned itself a bit of a gnarly ...

researchers has found that the treatment is effective in relieving depression, and in some cases may be more effective than medication. Though abuse of the technique in the early 20th century has ...

Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Salt Lake City man battling lifelong depression has been given a long-overdue reprieve from an old and very misunderstood treatment. Peter Cornish says he feels healthier now than ...

Two recent studies may have discovered how electroconvulsive therapy and its close cousin, magnetic seizure therapy, are so effective at alleviating some mental illnesses, especially severe depression ...

NEW YORK -- Despite the controversy surrounding the procedure, electric shock therapy appears to be an effective treatment for psychiatric illness, and may lift patients' depression better than ...

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 back in a bed on the ...