The Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban use of electrical ... now have treatment plans that include — or potentially include — use of the devices, according to the FDA.

"Electric shock therapy is scary. It does sting. It's perfectly safe, but it does sting when you go through. "By going through things that you feel intimidated by, you get to the other side ...

Electric eels and fish were used by people in ancient times to treat headaches and mental illness. The practice came back in 1937 when Ugo Cerletti (1877-1963) and Lucino Bini (b. 1908) treated ...

The FDA has approved an adaptive deep brain stimulation (aDBS) treatment for people with with Parkinson’s disease, making this groundbreaking technology available to people nationwide.

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The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut legislature is weighing a bill to extend the period of authorization to treat a person with electric shock therapy either with or without their consent.

Learn more about ECT. During shock therapy, the doctor will send measured, controlled electric impulses to the brain, eventually inducing a small seizure. This seizure activity triggers ...

Thousands of women in England are being given “dangerous” electric shock treatment for mental health ... data or unique identifiers, on your device. Selecting "I Accept" enables tracking ...