Electroconvulsive therapy's role in treating depression in the elderly will be in the hot seat during a public symposium tonight. ECT -- commonly dubbed electroshock therapy -- is an applied burst of ...

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 ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Carrie Fisher’s ashes are in an urn designed to look like a Prozac pill.