Our electroconvulsive therapy [ECT] research team, comprising three women who have had ECT themselves and three clinical psychologists, has conducted the largest ever survey about ECT, involving 846 ...

Welcome to State of Mind, a new section from Slate and Arizona State University dedicated to exploring mental health. Follow us on Twitter. In August 2019, I never thought I would be in this position.

The most prominent barriers to expanding an existing ECT service were lack of physical space, stigma on the part of patients, and transportation difficulties. The most prominent barriers to initiating ...

Experts have raised concerns about Australia’s use of involuntary ECT, but some are adamant about its impact on people with ...

Electroconvulsive therapy can effectively treat depression, and is as safe as antidepressant drugs along with psychotherapy, a new analysis found. By Nicholas Bakalar Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT ...

Centennial Peaks Hospital in Louisville is introducing its new electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) service line director, Dr. Claudia Clopton, M.D. According to a release, Clopton has over 15 years of ECT ...

As I walked into the room adjacent to the electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) suite, images of a strapped down, fully awake Jack Nicholson jolting flashed in my mind. Since watching unmodified ECT in “One ...

During his third-year psychiatry clerkship as a medical student, Zach Rosenthal, MD, Ph.D., was part of a team providing care to a young man with schizophrenia and severe catatonia. "He was stuck ...

An international survey of ECT recipients found that over half felt they weren't given adequate information about the treatment beforehand. Many patients remember being told that ECT was safe and that ...

I used to think my mother was dumb. I thought she was stupid, and I hated her for it. I was embarrassed by her and never wanted any of my friends to meet her. I never wanted her to chaperone on the ...