Each year, more than 100,000 Americans undergo electroconvulsive therapy, also known as "electroshock treatment" and "shock therapy." Electroconvulsive therapy may seem like it's from medieval times, ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. In June 2015, Jeffrey Thelen’s parents noticed their son was experiencing problems with his memory. In the subsequent years, he would get lost driving to ...

Electroconvulsive therapy used to be called electroshock therapy and it was developed in 1938 to treat certain mental disorders. Its history is not a rosy one. “It’s earned itself a bit of a gnarly ...

About a third of people reported brain damage after electroconvulsive therapy, with many suffering memory loss, study found ...

Dolores Orrico watched her psychiatrist flip a switch and turn a knob. She stared hard as adjustments were made to the machine that’d soon send her into a seizure. She was lying back in a bed on the ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a treatment often associated with misconceptions and stigma, may hold its efficacy for treating depression by increasing aperiodic activity in the brain, according to ...

While many brain-computer interface companies are focused on helping paralyzed people communicate, Motif Neurotech is ...