The treatment did, however, erase large chunks of her life, she says. She does not remember getting married or giving birth and she feels shock therapy lowered her IQ, Loper says. "I'm brain damaged." ...

And yet, psychiatrists have long turned to ECT, a method of stimulating a seizure through an electric shock to the brain, as an important treatment for patients who, battling profound depression, ...

RICHMOND HEIGHTS, Ohio — When most people hear the term ‘shock therapy,’ they think of archaic images straight out of the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.&#82… ...

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(Photo by Fin Costello/Redferns/Getty Images) I wouldn’t have dealt with it well at any point, but I am in that hospital getting ECT, and shock treatment messes with my hearing.

Critics have portrayed shock treatment as a form of medical abuse. Yet many psychiatrists, and more importantly, patients, consider it to be safe and effective. Few medical treatments have such ...

So this summer he went the shock treatment route. Yes, shock treatment — it is sending shock waves into the impacted knee or other area, very different than the “One Few Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” ...

Thousands of women in the UK have been given "dangerous" electric shock therapy for their mental health, despite concerns it can cause brain damage. Search Entertainment ...

The treatment did, however, erase large chunks of her life, she says. She does not remember getting married or giving birth and she feels shock therapy lowered her IQ, Loper says. "I'm brain damaged." ...