Electroconvulsive therapy has been used to treat various mental illnesses since the late 1930s. The technique, which involves passing electrical currents through the brain to trigger a short ...

A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class action lawsuit against McGill University, the Royal Victoria Hospital, ...

Major adverse cardiac events and mortality associated with Electroconvulsive Therapy: Correcting and updating a 2019 meta-analysis. Ethical Human Psychology and Psychiatry, Sept. DOI:10.1891/EHPP ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and subanesthetic intravenous ketamine are both currently used for treatment-resistant major depression, but the comparative effectiveness of the two treatments ...

Families of patients in a Cold War-era mind-control experiment in Montreal are pressing forward after a recent setback in their class-action lawsuit. By Vjosa Isai The C.I.A. headquarters in ...

Max Fink, a psychiatrist and neurologist who advanced the acceptance of electroconvulsive therapy as an option for treating severely depressed patients who do not respond to drugs or psychotherapy ...