The treatment has improved significantly over the years, explains psychiatrist Dr. Sarah Lisanby Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to ...

When Jane[*] finished her series of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), her mother was furious—but not for the reasons you'd expect. Her daughter had undergone a series of procedures in which doctors at ...

Deep-inhalation isoflurane anesthesia has an antidepressant effect that approaches the effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), with fewer cognitive side effects, preliminary results indicate. If ...

For Americans suffering from severe depression, successful treatment options are still limited. Some psychiatrists say one effective weapon in the arsenal is under-utilized – because of a bad image ...

Chapman, a 27-year-old photographer who lives in St. Louis, Missouri, was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder when she was 14. Over the years, she struggled with her condition, which is ...

Electroshock therapy was first used in 1938 to induce a therapeutic seizure. Those seizures seemed to reset the brain. Today the treatment is nothing like the Frankenstein depictions in film and ...

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 ...

The Showtime drama "Yellowjackets" has repeatedly received praise for its portrayal of trauma, but a recent episode in particular has people buzzing. In it, we see that Simone Kessell's Lottie was so ...

Unless absolutely necessary, I did not get out of bed. It took colossal effort just to take my daughter to the bus stop. It was only a short walk from home, but I preferred driving. I could not only ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark ― Deaths directly related to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are rare events and seem to be decreasing in incidence, results of a very large-scale meta-analysis show. The findings, ...