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

When Jane[*] finished her series of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), her mother was furious—but not for the reasons you'd expect. Her daughter had undergone a series of procedures in which doctors at ...

As I walked into the room adjacent to the electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) suite, images of a strapped down, fully awake Jack Nicholson jolting flashed in my mind. Since watching unmodified ECT in “One ...

Our electroconvulsive therapy [ECT] research team, comprising three women who have had ECT themselves and three clinical psychologists, has conducted the largest ever survey about ECT, involving 846 ...

The most prominent barriers to expanding an existing ECT service were lack of physical space, stigma on the part of patients, and transportation difficulties. The most prominent barriers to initiating ...

Centennial Peaks Hospital in Louisville is introducing its new electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) service line director, Dr. Claudia Clopton, M.D. According to a release, Clopton has over 15 years of ECT ...

I used to think my mother was dumb. I thought she was stupid, and I hated her for it. I was embarrassed by her and never wanted any of my friends to meet her. I never wanted her to chaperone on the ...

Electroconvulsive therapy has had a bad rap in films and media for decades - in some cases, deservedly so. A specialist explains why the stigma is not warranted. It has a dark history of misuse, a ...