A new international online survey published in the Journal of Affective Disorders gives voice to the lived experiences of ...
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Dec. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Most people receiving shock therapy for mental health problems aren’t receiving any sort of psychological counseling ...
After reading 3,000 Pulses Later in 48 hours, two questions pounded in my head. How does a psychiatrist determine whether TMS (trans-cranial magnetic stimulation) or ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is ...
Magnetic seizure therapy (MST) offers similar efficacy as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in treating bipolar mania in adults, with significantly fewer adverse effects on language abilities, new ...
"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 ...
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As a psychiatry resident, he became convinced of the benefits of ECT. But he spent years battling detractors and a misleading pop-culture depiction of the procedure. By Richard Sandomir Max Fink, a ...
Therapy is an important part of mental health care. Working with a therapist can be an effective way to treat chronic mental ...