Researchers have found that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), where an electric current is passed through the brain, can ...

Although the most common side effect of Electroconvulsive Therapy is memory loss, my recent review suggests that more ...

New data has revealed that electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is being disproportionately used to treat women with mental health issues, including severe depression. Thousands of women in England are ...

Using 10 years (2009–2018) of routinely collected Scottish data of people with moderate to severe depression (n = 2074) ...

ECT involves passing electric currents through a patient's brain to cause seizures to treat severe depression. A 2019 audit shows Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership (AWP) gave ECT to 169 ...

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The electric currents and the seizures they trigger are able to alter brain chemistry and rapidly reverse the symptoms of some common mental health conditions in a few treatments. ECT sessions are ...

But it confirmed to BBC News NI that it stopped inspections of individual ECT clinics in Northern Ireland in 2017. It changed from inspecting individual wards in acute mental health services to ...

Evidence from current practice provided by NHS England and analysed by NICE indicates that digital therapies recommended for PTSD could save over 5,000 hours of therapist time per 1,000 people. Almost ...

Above all, the arrival of Thorazine in psychiatric treatment in the early 1950s made electroconvulsive therapy a second choice or last resort for treating mental illness. Its popularity declined ...

Knowing You Have a Brain Aneurysm May Raise Anxiety Risk, Other Mental Health Conditions Aug. 26, 2024 — Even if the risk is small, the potential of a debilitating brain vessel rupture may be a ...

Mental Health Concerns Are a Huge Part of Primary Care Practice Sep. 19, 2024 — An examination of millions of patient visits to primary care physicians shows that mental health concerns are ...