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 ...

Electroconvulsive therapy can effectively treat depression, and is as safe as antidepressant drugs along with psychotherapy, a new analysis found. By Nicholas Bakalar Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT ...

For years, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been a lifesaving treatment for patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD), yet exactly how it works has largely remained a mystery. Now ...

April 26, 2022 (Toronto) – Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was associated with a 50 per cent reduction in risk for suicide among patients with depression in the year after their hospitalizations, ...

For those wishing to improve their mental health, a chief priority is usually to find one or more therapies that effectively improve well-being and quality of life. One that might come up in this ...

Welcome to State of Mind, a new section from Slate and Arizona State University dedicated to exploring mental health. Follow us on Twitter. In August 2019, I never thought I would be in this position.

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) uses an electric current to treat serious mental disorders. (National Institutes of Health image) Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is a procedure done under ...

Cynthia is turning to ECT, or Electroconvulsive Therapy, to manage her severe depression. Fear and misunderstanding have created a stigma around ECT or Electroconvulsive Therapy, but today it’s done ...

Most patients with mania responded to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a Swedish population-based study found. Among 571 individuals who were in a manic episode, 482 (84.4%) responded to treatment ...