An international survey has found that women are twice as likely as men to receive electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and are also more likely to experience long-term memory loss and other adverse ...

Despite UN calls for bans on involuntary electroshock, new applications for forced ECT at two Connecticut hospitals soared 650 percent in four years—highlighting alarming gaps in consent and patient ...

Electroconvulsive therapy [ECT] involves administering electricity to the human brain, under general anaesthetic, in order to cause grand mal convulsions. A typical course of ECT involves six to 12 ...