June 23, 2010 (Boca Raton, Florida) — Adding electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) to clozapine is an effective treatment for patients with clozapine-resistant schizophrenia, researchers reported at the New ...

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 ...

During his third-year psychiatry clerkship as a medical student, Zach Rosenthal, MD, Ph.D., was part of a team providing care to a young man with schizophrenia and severe catatonia. "He was stuck ...

An international survey of ECT recipients found that over half felt they weren't given adequate information about the treatment beforehand. Many patients remember being told that ECT was safe and that ...

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 in a bed on the second ...

The medical pros of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) are being exaggerated while the risks are being downplayed, suggest the findings of a survey on the type of information patients and their relatives ...

This randomized, noninferiority trial compared ketamine with electroconvulsive therapy in treatment-resistant depression. Ketamine was noninferior to ECT for treatment-resistant depression without ...