ELECTRIC convulsive therapy has been used for the last three years at the Foxborough State Hospital and has become the chief form of physical therapy in the treatment of psychoses of psychogenic ...

Early termination of prolonged seizures with intravenous administration of benzodiazepines improves outcomes. For faster and more reliable administration, paramedics increasingly use an intramuscular ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most controversial treatments used in modern psychiatry. Methods of inducing seizure or convulsions as a way of treating psychiatric conditions were ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most powerful treatment psychiatry has on offer. It is effective in more than 80 percent of patients with serious depression – no drug comes anywhere close to ...

CORE-VNS is the largest prospective, multinational observational study evaluating contemporary VNS Therapy devices in people with Drug-Resistant Epilepsy – Demonstrated 76% median reduction in seizure ...

Status epilepticus - continuous or rapid sequential seizure activity for 30 minutes or more - is a medical emergency with a high mortality rate in both children and adults. Prompt and effective ...

Delayed treatment of status epilepticus is known to increase seizure duration, but new research shows that a delay of more than 10 minutes from seizure onset increases morbidity and risk of death. The ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a treatment involving the delivery of a small electrical current to a person’s brain using electrodes. The therapy induces a seizure or a convulsion that lasts for ...

Of all treatments in contemporary psychiatry, perhaps none is more commonly misunderstood than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Its depiction in the popular media and in movies such as One Flew Over ...

Status epilepticus - continuous or rapid sequential seizure activity for 30 minutes or more - is a medical emergency with a high mortality rate in both children and adults. Prompt and effective ...