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 ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and subanesthetic intravenous ketamine are both currently used for treatment-resistant major depression, but the comparative effectiveness of the two treatments remains ...

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe, effective treatment for certain mental health disorders. Most often, we use ECT to treat depression that hasn’t improved with other therapies, known as ...

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 ...

ECT response–guided sequential strategy. This strategy comprises two phases. In the initial phase, the goal is to exploit the advantage of ECT in rapidly inducing mood improvement and then to ...

Groundbreaking study reveals ketamine as a non-inferior alternative to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treatment-resistant depression Ketamine treatment shows significant improvement in depressive ...

After reading 3,000 Pulses Later in 48 hours, two questions pounded in my head. How does a psychiatrist determine whether TMS (trans-cranial magnetic stimulation) or ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is ...

It’s been almost exactly five years since I drove down to Washington, D.C. in the middle of a blizzard – not as bad as the one that hit the East Coast last weekend, but bad enough to stretch a typical ...