ELECTRIC convulsive therapy has been used for the last three years at the Foxborough State Hospital and has become the chief form of physical therapy in the treatment of psychoses of psychogenic ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most controversial treatments used in modern psychiatry. Methods of inducing seizure or convulsions as a way of treating psychiatric conditions were ...

A demonstrates a roentgenogram of the chest immediately before electroshock, and B one at the height of the tonic phase of the seizure, twenty seconds after the start of the convulsion. The following ...

IN an earlier communication 1, I reported a finding indicating that the power dissipated in the subcutaneous tissues, where the receptors lie, is the parameter most relevant to the determination of ...

India, Aug. 1 -- 34-year-old woman regains independence after years of daily seizures through advanced epilepsy care ...

Status epilepticus - continuous or rapid sequential seizure activity for 30 minutes or more - is a medical emergency with a high mortality rate in both children and adults. Prompt and effective ...

Status epilepticus (SE) is a medical emergency characterized by recurrent episodes of seizures without the recovery of consciousness between them. It is associated with significant mortality, mostly ...

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 ...