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 ...

This post is part two in a series. Part one is titled "Treating the Seriously Mentally Ill." I was called to evaluate Dorothy after she had been admitted to the ward from the ER, where her family had ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment for severe mental health conditions, including schizophrenia. Though it’s more commonly used to treat major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder, ECT ...

ECT can seem like something out of science fiction, but it actually has decades of studies to show how effective it can be in reducing depression symptoms. Depression is one of the most common mental ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which involves passing electricity through the brain under general anesthesia to cause a seizure, usually between six and twelve times, is used to varying degrees ...

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 ...

Of all treatments in contemporary psychiatry, perhaps none is more commonly misunderstood than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Its depiction in the popular media and in movies such as One Flew Over ...

Inducing seizures can reset the brain in cases of severe depression, but the cost to memory has always been high. A large-scale trial led by researchers at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health ...