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 ...

Jan Eastgate, president of CCHR International, states: “Electroshock devices meet the FDA threshold, which need to be ...

Researchers have found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), where an electric current is passed through the brain, can reduce the severity of mental illnesses. The findings were presented at EPA 2024 ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In June 2015, Jeffrey Thelen’s parents noticed their son was experiencing problems with his memory. In the subsequent years, he would get lost driving to ...

An international clinical trial led by researchers at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and University of California San Diego School of Medicine, published in The Lancet Psychiatry, ...

Lisa Morrison entered the mental health system at the age of 14 after she was prescribed medication for major depression. But it’s only decades later that Morrison, who was born in South Africa and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Welcome to State of Mind, a new section from Slate and Arizona State University dedicated to ...