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 ...

eDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA fPerot Foundation Neuroscience Translational Research Center, O'Donnell Brain Institute, University of Texas ...

Leading international professional associations have issued a joint statement taking a clear stance on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and calling for a scientific and evidence-based presentation of ...

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Electroconvulsive therapy [ECT] involves administering electricity to the human brain, under general anaesthetic, in order to cause grand mal convulsions. A typical course of ECT involves six to 12 ...

A new study shows ECT can cause disastrous health and cognitive problems, and chronic impairments across many day-to-day activities. It turns out that wider adverse events are not rare; in fact, each ...

Summary: A large international survey of 858 electroconvulsive therapy recipients found that women are twice as likely as men to receive ECT and experience more adverse effects. Women reported higher ...

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) continues to be a mainstay in clinical practice due to its proven effectiveness (1–3), despite its long-standing history of stigma and controversy (4–6). In recent ...

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 ...

Somatics LLC convinced a federal appeals court not to reinstate claims from a man who says electroconvulsive therapy led to brain damage that caused memory loss. The US Court of Appeals for the ...

The right to informed consent is a core ethical principle. Recent audits of patient information leaflets about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), in Australia, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and ...