Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) helps people with severe depression by "pushing the reset button" on brain networks involved in creating a mental picture, according to recent Baycrest findings. People ...

George Kirov receives funding from: funding for research in genetics, but it has nothing to do with the ECT work. I am a member of the Labour party. The use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat ...

Share on Pinterest New research finds that ketamine may be a more effective treatment for severe depression than electroconvulsive therapy. damircudic/Getty Images A new study compares ketamine with ...

Five co-researchers and I have just launched the first-ever international survey of people who have received electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), called electroshock therapy in the United States. The ...

A professional engineer working at a major employer in the Kansas City area was struggling with severe anxiety and depression. He was contemplating suicide. "I specifically remember saying, ‘Well, you ...

When seriously depressed patients don’t respond to antidepressants, the alternatives are limited. Now a new study has found that ketamine performs at least as well as the current gold standard for ...

The recommendations in this technology appraisal relating to the treatment of depression have been replaced by those in the NICE guideline on depression in adults published in October 2009. Note that ...

NEW ORLEANS – Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in older patients with refractory depression and bipolar disorder has been linked to improvement in some key cognitive measures, allaying fears that the ...

Today, I will explain section 26 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 2023 (the ECT Act). The section regulates when the law treats electronic communication as dispatched. It ...

The idea of treating a psychiatric illness by passing a jolt of electricity through the brain was one of the most controversial in 20th Century medicine. So why are we still using a procedure ...