Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) appears to be far more effective than algorithm-based drug therapy for treatment-resistant bipolar depression in what is believed to be the first randomized, controlled ...

EEG seizure duration of 60-69 seconds during the first ECT session was associated with the highest remission rates, suggesting longer seizures (within safe limits) may lead to better outcomes.

Magnetic seizure therapy (MST) offers similar efficacy as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in treating bipolar mania in adults, with significantly fewer adverse effects on language abilities, new ...

Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, recently revealed that she had undergone nine rounds of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to treat severe depression. In the interview, Jackson said that although she ...

The medical pros of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are being exaggerated while the risks are being downplayed, suggest the findings of a survey on the type of information patients and their relatives ...

After months of me trying to help this patient, a cure I had hoped to bring [via psychotherapy] had not been achieved at all. Instead, a harsh, drastic, mechanical shock machine, rather than a warm, ...

Compared with lurasidone (Latuda), the investigational oral antidepressant NRX-101 did not significantly reduce suicidality in people with bipolar depression and missed statistical significance in ...

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 ...

UC Davis Health has expanded treatment options for people with serious mental illness by opening a new electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) clinic. It gives people in the greater Sacramento region access ...