Electroconvulsive

Electroconvulsive therapy ECT, or electric shock treatment, was once normal in mental hospitals, though there is no verifiable scientific evidence that it benefits patients.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

Electroconvulsive therapy ECT, or electric shock treatment, was once normal in mental hospitals, though there is no verifiable scientific evidence that it benefits patients.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

Non-pharmaceutical Clinical psychology · Electroconvulsive therapy · Involuntary commitment · Light therapy · Psychotherapy ·

Famous manic-depressives.. Catholic Mom of 10 2009

Electroconvulsive therapy in effect may be defined as a controlled type of brain damage produced by electrical means ...

Bruce E. Levine: Are We Really Okay with Electroshocking Toddlers? 2009

Electroconvulsive therapy was developed in 1937 by Ugo Cerletti, a neurologist who was looking for a safer method than chemical-induced convulsions.

Shock Therapy Still Used to Treat Some Cases of Severe Depression 2008

Electroconvulsive therapy, a lot people have heard about that, it is still -

CNN Transcript May 2, 2008 2008

Ida Galvanoni, age 93, who recently underwent Electroconvulsive therapy for depression.

The Graying of Shock Therapy 2007

Electroconvulsive therapy involves jolting the brain with an electric current to induce a brief seizure, which somehow resets faulty brain connections much like a computer is rebooted.

The Graying of Shock Therapy 2007

Unlike Electroconvulsive therapy this discovery created a schism between the Analytic Schools of Psychology Freud, Jung and Adler and the Biologic Schools of Psychopharmacology.

Mind Hacks: Psychology, the soul and the immaterial 2005

Electroconvulsive seizures inhibit amygdala kindling: Implications for mechanism of action in affective illness.

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993