From the Division of Psychiatric Research, Boston State Hospital. This study was aided by a grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. † Professor emeritus of neurology, Tufts College Medical ...

Thousands of women in England are being given “dangerous” electric shock treatment for mental health issues – despite warnings that it can cause irreparable brain damage and memory loss.

Electric eels and ... of Thorazine in psychiatric treatment in the early 1950s made electroconvulsive therapy a second choice or last resort for treating mental illness. Its popularity declined ...

Although the most common side effect of Electroconvulsive Therapy is memory loss, my recent review suggests that more ...

It has also put a strain on his personal and social life as well as his mental health due to him not ... In the aftermath of ...

RESEARCHERS have recorded a large increase in the number of North-East psychiatric patients given electric shock treatment ... by psychiatrists to treat mental illness. Brian Daniels, national ...

Gov. Andy Beshear (D) signed an executive order that bans the use of conversion therapy on minors — a move that several ...

A gay man who went through months of electric shock "therapy" in a university ... "extreme" post traumatic stress disorder and poor mental health. Homosexuality had only been de-criminalised ...

called behavior therapy, is developed, which holds that people with phobias can be trained to overcome them. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz's book, The Myth of Mental Illness, argues that there is no ...

Mental Health Awareness ... look on his face was pure shock - that something that originally didn't work out, turned out really well. “That epitomised why cooking therapy can be so powerful.

“The potential is that VR treatment can be faster, more powerful, and have a greater appeal for patients than traditional mental health approaches,” says Daniel Freeman, founder and director ...