When seriously depressed patients don’t respond to antidepressants, the alternatives are limited. Now a new study has found that ketamine performs at least as well as the current gold standard for ...

HOUSTON — Last year around 13 percent of adolescents suffered a major depressive episode and about 5 percent of adults did as well. It can be tough to find the right combination of effective ...

For those wishing to improve their mental health, a chief priority is usually to find one or more therapies that effectively improve well-being and quality of life. One that might come up in this ...

Most patients with mania responded to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), a Swedish population-based study found. Among 571 individuals who were in a manic episode, 482 (84.4%) responded to treatment ...

"Occasionally, I feel bitter," wrote Anne Donahue as she began an article for a medical journal four years after her treatment with electroconvulsive therapy. "It is a grief that keeps deepening over ...

For years, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been a lifesaving treatment for patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD), yet exactly how it works has largely remained a mystery. Now ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) uses an electric current to treat serious mental disorders. (National Institutes of Health image) Electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, is a procedure done under ...

Cynthia is turning to ECT, or Electroconvulsive Therapy, to manage her severe depression. Fear and misunderstanding have created a stigma around ECT or Electroconvulsive Therapy, but today it’s done ...

This post is part two in a series. Part one is titled "Treating the Seriously Mentally Ill." I was called to evaluate Dorothy after she had been admitted to the ward from the ER, where her family had ...