BANGALORE: NIMHANS here has developed a brief pulse electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) machine, termed as the 21st century ECT machine, for safer administration of 'shock treatment' for patients with ...

Dolores Orrico watched her psychiatrist flip a switch and turn a knob. She stared hard as adjustments were made to the machine that’d soon send her into a seizure. She was lying in a bed on the second ...

In the early stages of the coronavirus response in the United States, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made a recommendation to doctors and hospitals to postpone elective procedures to ...

Today's doctors are struggling to treat psychological problems and despite that, we are still using electroshock — even on children. In 2003, Dr. Loren Mosher and Professor David Cohen wrote a brief ...