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 ...

Solzbacher is the Medical Director of the Treatment Resistant Mood Disorders Clinic and ECT/TMS/Ketamine Services at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute (HMHI ... After placing electrodes on the ...

FOR decades, Sarah Smith suffered with depression. But now, due to a futuristic-looking headset that zapped electronic pulses deep into her brain, her fog has lifted. She tells Sun Health: “It’s ...

Joan Bellingham suffered burns, memory loss and bouts of blindness. Her doctors called it treatment - but she calls it torture.

Children were given electroconvulsive therapy and sedatives as punishment - and it wasn't limited to Lake Alice.

When I heard that New York City had opened up its first electric shock therapy training gym on the Upper East Side, I knew I had to give it a try. When it comes to exercise crazes, I'm willing to ...

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 ...

"They would give me a shock and would continue ... the Head of the Department of Mental Health Nursing at King's College London - electrical aversion therapy never became main-stream in the ...

Online gaming is a massive draw for kids and parents alike in China. But there is also a dark side.

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 ...