An international survey of ECT recipients found that over half felt they weren't given adequate information about the treatment beforehand. Many patients remember being told that ECT was safe and that ...

Patients treated by female doctors have a lower mortality rate when compared to patients treated by their male counterparts, a new study suggests. Researchers found this was especially true for female ...

Patients treated by female physicians have lower mortality and readmission rates, a recent study found. The study, published April 23 in Annals of Internal Medicine, used a 20% random sample of ...

A major international survey of people receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has found that most patients are not asked about the childhood adversities or recent life stressors that they believe ...

At 36 years old, Cody Harris is starting a new life. Harris has suffered from severe depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder, and bipolar disorder since he was seven years old. For nearly ...

Electroconvulsive therapy [ECT] involves administering electricity to the human brain, under general anaesthetic, in order to cause grand mal convulsions. A typical course of ECT involves six to 12 ...