The most prominent barriers to expanding an existing ECT service were lack of physical space, stigma on the part of patients, and transportation difficulties. The most prominent barriers to initiating ...

Used for more than 80 years in the treatment of severe depression, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) remains controversial. In a "head-to-head" article published online January 30 in the BMJ, experts ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. If the antidepressant effect of an ECT series is due to the first treatment only, the effects of this treatment evolving with time, ...

On June 3 I published, with colleagues, the latest of my six reviews of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) research, in the U.S. journal Ethical Human Psychology & Psychiatry. 1 Presumably because it ...

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 ...

I have previously written here about the efficacy and risks of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), the information ECT patients are given, its regulation, and its use on children. Last year, I announced ...