Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - People with anxiety and depression might feel a little better after they get mild electric ...

Delivering electrical stimulation to the spinal cord through tiny, platinum electrodes could ease the severe motor deficits of Parkinson’s disease as effectively as a much more intrusive procedure ...

RALEIGH (WTVD) -- One Triangle woman is crediting electroconvulsive therapy (shock therapy) for helping curb her depression. Tiana, 19, said she suffered from depression for years after intense ...

Tony didn’t know what to expect when he walked into the Brain Treatment Center in San Diego, California, last spring. The former Navy SEAL only knew that he needed help. His service in Iraq and ...

The article on Feb. 25 on the use of electric shock treatment on special needs children invoked mixed feelings. On a lighter side, I do not have a special needs child, so I cannot oppose the use of ...

Seven hundred patients were part of the study, published Tuesday. — -- Home-based electrical field treatment known as tumor-treating fields, or TTFields, holds promise in helping patients with ...

Electricity has been used to shock hearts, ease pain and even treat depression. Now, apparently, it can even thwart blindness. ScyFix, a Chanhassen start-up, has developed a device that treats ...

Can electric current spark better memory in people with mild cognitive impairment? Possibly, according to researchers—at least short-term. At the 15th International Conference on Alzheimer's and ...

A Massachusetts school has won an appeal to use electric shock therapy on mentally disabled pupils. A federal court ruled that an earlier FDA ban on the therapy had been outside the agency's area of ...

ELECTRIC convulsive therapy has been used for the last three years at the Foxborough State Hospital and has become the chief form of physical therapy in the treatment of psychoses of psychogenic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Electrical stimulation might help to slow disease progression and restore visual field in patients with ...

More than 250 people were subjected to painful electric shocks, designed to change their sexuality and gender identity, in NHS hospitals between 1965 and 1973, the BBC has discovered. Three Electric ...