Swedish neurotech startup Flow Neuroscience has secured FDA approval for the first brain stimulation device for home use in ...
Only a third of patients said they’d been asked about recent stressful events or childhood traumas like abuse or neglect before being given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), according to a report ...
Only a third of electroconvulsive therapy patients said they’d been asked about childhood traumas or recent stresses Most felt these events likely contributed to their mental state, but were not ...
New legislation may ban ECT for under-18s, but wider concerns over safety, memory loss and ethics remain unresolved in Ireland Lou Reed wrote bitingly about the electro-convulsive therapy he was ...
Citizens Commission on Human Rights International (CCHR), the world’s longest-running mental-health watchdog, says 2025 ...
Canadian actor Claire Brosseau, 48 years old, has expressed her desire for assisted suicide, euthanasia. On the 29th, The New ...
Vulnerable patients were drugged, electrocuted and raped inside Queensland’s infamous Wolston Park Hospital over a shocking 50-year period, a harrowing new report reveals.
A new international online survey published in the Journal of Affective Disorders gives voice to the lived experiences of ...
A major international survey of people receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has found that most patients are not asked about the childhood adversities or recent life stressors that they believe ...
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 ...