Dear Readers: Judging by the volume of letters I continue to get about the potential dangers of electroshock therapy (known technically as electroconvulsive therapy), many people remain concerned ...

NEW YORK — Roland Kohloff, principal timpanist of the New York Philharmonic, had such a severe depression last spring that he was forced to stop performing. “I could feel it coming on,” he said. “My ...

Unbeknownst to her, Lucille Austwick became the poster girl for patient-rights advocates and psychiatry’s skeptics. “The Rosa Parks of electroshock” is how one publication described the 82-year-old ...

Whoopi Goldberg's upcoming memoir Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me serves as an emotional tribute to her family, but joy doesn't come without painful memories, as the Oscar-winning ...

'The View' co-host explained that her mom's traumatic experience had an impact on her as well. By Christy Piña Associate Editor Whoopi Goldberg got candid about her mother’s experience in a mental ...

Whoopi Goldberg has revealed that her father forced her mother to get electroshock treatment — one of the many revelations in her upcoming memoir, “Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me.” The ...

People with depression have high concentrations of norepinephrine, a nervous system hormone that signals blood vessels to constrict and ratchets up blood pressure, researchers report. Treating these ...

Electroconvulsive therapy used to be called electroshock therapy and it was developed in 1938 to treat certain mental disorders. Its history is not a rosy one. “It’s earned itself a bit of a gnarly ...

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