A transgender woman in China who recently won 60,000 yuan (roughly $8,300) in compensation from a hospital that forced her to undergo several rounds of electroshock "conversion therapy" has told CBS ...

A Turkish manufacturer aims to disrupt the worldwide market for less-lethal weapons with its new electroshock projectile, claimed to have been successfully tested in the field on three continents. The ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — For the past year, David Russell has been at Regions Hospital held on a court-ordered civil commitment. He was given 17 shock treatments at Mayo Clinic to treat his mental illness.

In this abandoned asylum, the hellish memories are hard to escape — since they’re all around you. Photographer Roman Robroek went inside an abandoned 19th-century asylum and his eerie photos show the ...

Despite udpates to the procedure, ECT still stirs debate in the medical world. July 20, 2007 — -- Amy, a New York resident, had her first electroshock treatment at the age of 72 … and despite the ...

Electric eels and fish were used by people in ancient times to treat headaches and mental illness. The practice came back in 1937 when Ugo Cerletti (1877-1963) and Lucino Bini (b. 1908) treated ...

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 ...

'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 ...