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            <title>Depression and ECT Information on Video</title>
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Dr. Richard Jaffe, Depression on &amp;#8220;The 10! Show&amp;#8221; from EinsteinHealth on Vimeo.

Clear and short explanation on depression and it&amp;#8217;s treatment, including ECT by Richard Jaffe MD.
Richard Jaffe discussed the “winter blues” and some of the treatment options that are available to those suffering with depression. He also highlighted some of the new refinements that have been made in Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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            <title>ECT An Update</title>
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            <description>ECT, current practice 
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Last Friday had the pleasure of doing a presentation on the current practice of ECT for lay public. It was during the Publieksdag for the 140th birthday of the Dutch Association of Psychiatry during the annual conference in Amsterdam.
Also found some excellent information on ECT on the Internet:

A concise description mainly on the procedure Electroconvulsive therapy: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Medscape about Electroconvulsive therapy, a clear and thorough discussion about ECT
Some older article: Electroconvulsive Therapy &amp;#8211; NIH Consensus Statements &amp;#8211; NCBI Bookshelf

Well written information about this treatment.

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            <title>Treating Depression: The “Shock Value” Of Electroconvulsive Therapy</title>
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            <description>Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is considered to be a highly effective treatment for depression. The story goes that roughly 90 percent of patients respond. The downside is that it requires general anesthesia with all its attendant risks, and patients may suffer from headaches and memory loss. The memory loss is often mild, but there are cases where it is profound and very troubling.
As with any psychiatric treatment &amp;#8212; or so it seems &amp;#8212; there are those who say it saved them and those who say it destroyed them. Because the risks aren&amp;#8217;t minor, the procedure is expensive and often done on an inpatient unit, and people generally don&amp;#8217;t like the idea of having an IV line placed, being put under, then shocked through their brain until they seize, only to wake up groggy and...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Shock: Electroconvulsive Therapy</title>
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            <description>Short video about electro convulsive therapy (ECT) with people who have been there. Nuanced narrative with the positive and negative aspects of ECT

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Related posts:10 Video&amp;#8217;s on Electroconvulsive Therapy
9 Videos on ECT, electroconvulsive therapy.
Electroshock in Mass Media (Source: Dr Shock MD PhD)</description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 12:21:38 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>ECT Hands On Experience</title>
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            <description>Aqua is a very good writer, an inspiration for this old doctor. Recently see underwent ECT and is writing her experiences with this treatment on her blog: honestly, nuanced and informative. Not all is good news, but than you will not undergo ECT for nothing and she has been there.
Please read her first post on this subject on her blog: ECT 1, Making The Decision, hope a lot will follow.


Related posts:Hands On Experience with ECT
Hands on Experience with Deep Brain Stimulation for Depression
Blogging About ECT, Hands on Experience (Source: Dr Shock MD PhD)</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:48:59 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>How is ECT depicted in the British Press?</title>
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            <description>From all the newspapers in the last seven years in British national newspapers about 348 mentioned ECT or electroconvulsive therapy or electroshock and it&amp;#8217;s other synonyms. Overall 111 articles (31,9%) portrayed ECT negatively, 198 articles were neutral and 39 were positive. A substantial comment on ECT was published in 44 (12,6%) articles. The negative comments (14/16) were published in liberal newspapers whereas most positive comments about ECT (10/12) were published in conservative newspapers.
Overall most depictions of ECT were neutral, with smaller numbers of negative (111) and positive (39) representations. Not bad compared to the depiction of ECT in Hollywood movies.

Euba R, &amp;#038; Crugel M (2009). The depiction of electroconvulsive therapy in the British press. The journal o...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:12:59 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Comments To FDA On ECT Due January 8</title>
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            <description>As most of you know, the FDA is poised to approve ECT devices as &quot;safe&quot; without forcing their manufacturers to prove that point with the usual clinical trials. That's right: the geniuses at the FDA have allowed these devices to marketed, under some crazy exemption, for decades without requiring clinical trials. Regardless of your personal feelings about ECT, I think we can all agree that not requiring safety trials is complete BS.

The FDA is taking comments from the public on ECT devices, but you only have until January 8 (this Friday) to tell the agency what you think. There's much more information on all of this, including contact information, at PsychRights. (Source: Furious Seasons)</description>
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            <title>FDA Wants Your Comments on ECT</title>
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            <description>The good folks over at the Committee for Truth in Psychiatry (a national organization for people who&amp;#8217;ve had electroconvulsive therapy - ECT) wanted me to remind you that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking comments on the safety and efficacy of electroconvulsive devices. You may not be aware, but these devices &amp;#8212; which deliver electrical impulses to your brain! &amp;#8212; have never been tested by the FDA for either safety of efficacy.
Let me repeat that &amp;#8211; the FDA has never approved ECT devices for safety or efficacy. 
Doctors today can apply electrical impulses to your brain without having any government agency approve such treatment, despite the fact that ECT in most people results in sometimes-significant memory loss. We wrote about FDA&amp;#8217;s desire to...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:35:05 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Blogging About ECT, Hands on Experience</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984866&amp;cid=t_110320_109_f&amp;fid=38950&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2009%2F11%2F12%2Fblogging-about-ect-hands-on-experience%2F</link>
            <description>The best information in health care is from patients who have been there. Those who underwent treatment, suffer from a certain illness. It&amp;#8217;s the kind of hands on experience physicians can&amp;#8217;t deliver. On this blog I have collected some examples of these &amp;#8220;hands on experiences&amp;#8221;. Some recent posts were written about ECT by them with hands on experience.
Aqua on Vicarious Therapy wrote a post on ECT and media portrayals of depression treatment options. She is irritated by the negative portrayal of ECT in the media. 
It irritates me, (and does not help me explain potential treatments to concerned family members), when the media, either by negative portrayal or by leaving positive and informative information about ECT out of stories about depression treatments, subtly dismi...</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:08:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>ECT Update A Year Later</title>
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            <description>This courageous young woman Rachel Star (on twitter) tells about the negative an positive aspects of ECT, a year later. Very impressive story from someone who has been there and is getting along. 
A kind of sequel of a video at the beginning of this year just before and during the course of ECT on this blog: Hands on experience on video about electroshock therapy. 
A young woman and her mother on this video about ECT. Very impressive story about having ECT, side-effects and how she improved on ECT.


Related posts:Hands on experience on video about electroshock therapy Watch If You Forget @ Yahoo! Video A young woman...10 Video&amp;#8217;s on Electroconvulsive Therapy The most recent hands on experience with ECT and...Hands On Experience with ECT Found another excellent blog of someone undergo...</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:48:29 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>ECT Lessons</title>
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            <description>Told you earlier this year about an excellent blog of someone undergoing Maintenance ECT at the moment: Jumpstarting a life with a little sparkle to the head.
After the fourth lesson there is now a fifth ECT lesson: After ECT treatment continues: 
I know that by the time we’re considering ECT, we are barely able to make it through the day, but I think it’s better to ask and know upfront what turns your life could take post-ECT rather than be surprised by something that’s already been documented that it might happen.
And even a sixth ECT lesson: Communication is key
If you experience any physical discomfort after ECT, such as a really bad headache or a sore throat/jaw pain, you should let your doctor know. S/he may be able to adjust your mouth guard or give you something for the pain....</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:58:21 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>U.S. News &amp; World Report, Did You Have Layoffs Too?</title>
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            <description>Because someone is not doing their homework over there. Here&amp;#8217;s the headline/subhead from a recent USN&amp;#038;WR article:
ECT, checkered past and all, is making a quiet comeback
Doesn&amp;#8217;t that sound kind of familiar? That&amp;#8217;s because you&amp;#8217;ve read it before &amp;#8212; numerous times. I&amp;#8217;d say the most recent comeback article was last year in Newsweek:
Shock therapy makes a [...] (Source: The Trouble With Spikol)</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:37:08 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Dear God, Are You Serious?</title>
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            <description>Thanks to Susan S. for sending me an article about China using shock therapy to &amp;#8220;cure&amp;#8221; Internet addicts. It&amp;#8217;s really hard to believe. From Yahoo! Finance:
Linyi Mental Health Hospital in eastern Shandong province used the treatment as part of a four-month program that has so far treated nearly 3,000 youths, the China Youth Daily newspaper [...] (Source: The Trouble With Spikol)</description>
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            <title>What if Ray Sandford Were Your Brother?</title>
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            <description>Forced treatment is not a new topic here on World of Psychology, nor is this the first time we&amp;#8217;ve discussed the unusual case of Ray Sandford. What did Mr. Sandford do wrong?
Nothing. He&amp;#8217;s simply mentally ill, the medications and prior treatments over his lifetime have failed him, and his legal guardian is a social service agency in Minnesota. The convergence of those three characteristics means he was a prime candidate &amp;#8212; in the court&amp;#8217;s eyes &amp;#8212; for ECT treatment.
The only problem? He opposes his electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). And despite experts&amp;#8217; insistence that Mr. Sandford is not competent to make such decisions for himself, his case has galvanized the &amp;#8220;mad pride&amp;#8221; movement and those who opposed any type of forced treatment.
Last week, Minne...</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 23:04:05 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Grandfathering ECT Machines</title>
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            <description>I only had one grandfather as I grew up (the other was dead before I was born &amp;#8212; a good thing, I was told), and he wasn&amp;#8217;t much good to me. Mainly, he ignored me. I would see commercials on TV about warm, loving grandfathers and I would think, What the hell went wrong? That [...] (Source: The Trouble With Spikol)</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:12:28 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>With FDA Change, ECT May Go the Way of the Dinosaur</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348546&amp;cid=t_110320_109_f&amp;fid=34750&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F15%2Fwith-fda-change-ect-may-go-the-way-of-the-dinosaur%2F</link>
            <description>Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) finally decided to start taking action to close a loophole that&amp;#8217;s been around nearly as long as the agency itself. Last Wednesday it said that it would require safety and efficacy data from manufacturers of medical devices in 25 different categories. This data is equivalent to the types of data the FDA currently requires for medical devices and drugs &amp;#8212; data that shows the device is both safe and effective in use for a prescribed disorder.
One of those 25 categories is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) machines. Yes, you heard right. For decades, the most notorious of all psychiatric treatments available has never met any type of rigorous FDA approval for their use. How can this be?

In the case of electroconvulsive therapy ma...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:51:52 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Go See Linda Andre!</title>
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            <description>One of my heroes, activist Linda Andre, is in Philadelphia this weekend in support of her excellent new book Doctors of Deception: What They Don&amp;#8217;t Want You to Know About Shock Treatment. She&amp;#8217;ll be appearing tomorrow. Info:
A New Life Peer Resource Center
3119 Spring Garden St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
March 28th at 2:00 p.m.
I&amp;#8217;ll be there too. (Source: The Trouble With Spikol)</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:14:29 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Forced Electroshock: NEVER ACCEPTABLE</title>
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            <description>The latest on the appalling case of Ray Sanford. As a survivor of electroshock therapy, I can assert that it destroys memory and cognitive function. That&amp;#8217;s not to say it isn&amp;#8217;t valuable for some people, but it should never be forced on someone who doesn&amp;#8217;t want it. As Sanford&amp;#8217;s mother says, a woman with breast [...] (Source: The Trouble With Spikol)</description>
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            <title>Report: Electroshock Used On Young Children In Australia</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2134722&amp;cid=t_110320_140_f&amp;fid=34843&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.furiousseasons.com%2Farchives%2F2009%2F01%2Freport_electroshock_used_on_young_children_in_australia_1.html</link>
            <description>On occasion, a bit of news comes my way that simply leaves me speechless (hat tip to Beyond Meds for putting me onto this) and this is one of those times: the Melbourne Herald Sun is reporting that it's uncovered government data establishing that ECT is being used on young children in the State of Victoria and elsewhere in Australia, in some cases on children younger than 4 years of age. 

From the article, it is unclear what these youngsters could possibly have that might merit using ECT, a procedure that the State of Western Australia is considering banning for kids under 12. My sick hunch is that, given how rare psychosis is in young kids, this is the bipolar child business run amok, or at least it smells like it. But then who cares what disorder these kids allegedly have, ECT simply ca...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Hey, who’s up for some involuntary ECT?</title>
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            <description>Not this guy. 
Stephany&amp;#8217;s all over this story over at her blog. 
Pissed off?  Find it scary?  Then act. 5 minutes of your time to make a phone call and/or dropping a few emails could help.
What if it were you?
Posted in bipolar disorder, discrimination, health care, I feel like breaking shit, injustice, media, mental health, [...] (Source: bipolar chicks blogging)</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:54:42 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Minnesota Man Gets Reprieve From Involuntary ECT</title>
            <link>http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1963956&amp;cid=t_110320_140_f&amp;fid=34843&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.furiousseasons.com%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2Fminnesota_man_gets_reprieve_from_involuntary_ect.html</link>
            <description>From MindFreedom I learned yesterday that Ray Sandford, whom I wrote about last week, has been given a one-week reprieve from the forced, involuntary ECT treatments he's had to endure in recent months. The bad news is that he's scheduled for another go-round next Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving.

Nice touch. (Source: Furious Seasons)</description>
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            <title>Forced ECT is Wrong in Minnesota, World</title>
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            <description>I can&amp;#8217;t believe I&amp;#8217;d ever had to write an entry like this. It turns my stomach.
	On Friday, MindFreedom, a non-profit human rights organization for people labeled with psychiatric illnesses, published the disturbing story of Ray Sandford, a 54-year-old resident of Columbia Heights, Minnesota. 
	Sandford&amp;#8217;s sad story is amazing and haunting. He is undergoing electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for severe depression. We don&amp;#8217;t know the full back-story, but the fact that he lives in a sheltered living home called Victory House suggests he&amp;#8217;s had a rough life of it so far. 
	Lots of people undergo ECT, although I&amp;#8217;m not a big proponent of it. I believe that because of the unpredictable memory loss associated with this &amp;#8220;treatment,&amp;#8221; it is not only a treatme...</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:37:57 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Neuroscientist Defends Forced ECT</title>
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            <description>Yesterday when I wrote about a case of forced, invountary ECT--outpatient no less--being imposed on a man in Minnesota, I noted that if anyone wanted to write a defense of involuntary ECT, then I'd post the result. Well, an anonymous neuroscientist in the UK who writes the Neuroskeptic blog took me up on my offer and wrote a post on his end.

His basic argument, which I find weak, is that ECT worked for his grandfather back in the days before anti-depressants in the 1940s. And, then, he continued:  

&quot;* Sometimes consent is a luxury

&quot;My argument is that involuntary ECT is sometimes justified because in psychiatry, involuntary treatment is sometimes necessary, and ECT is sometimes the only treatment that works. Some people object to all forced treatments, whether ECT, or medication, or any...</description>
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            <title>Help Stop Forced, Involuntary ECT In Minnesota</title>
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            <description>Over the weekend, I learned from David Oaks at MindFreedom that Ray Sandford, a Minnesota resident, was being forced to endure weekly ECT &quot;treatments&quot; against his will and without his consent. What's even more remarkable about this situation is that the court order is being enforced upon him as an outpatient--it's almost always enforced on an inpatient basis--and that's a situation such as I've never heard of before.

It's not clear to me what psychiatric condition Sandford is allegedly being treated for.

I am officially neutral on voluntary ECT--if someone wants it, it's their brain--but involuntary ECT is barbarous and amounts to torture. If anyone would like to defend involuntary ECT, let me hear from you. If you make a good argument, I might even post it.

More from a MindFreedom disp...</description>
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            <title>A Brief History of Shock Treatment</title>
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            <description>Dinah's post about the new movie, The Changeling, generated some discussion about ECT in the comments (Angelina Jolie's character got electroconvulsive therapy in 1928, nine years before the first published description), started by Romeo Vitelli who asked, &quot;Did they have ECT in 1928? I was under the impression that it was first developed in Europe in the 1930s.&quot;Anonymous wrote: Electroconvulsive shock therapy was discovered by Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini in Rome, in 1937.Source:  The History of Shock Therapy in PsychiatryApparently insulin-induced coma was all the rage in the late 20s.And didn't Francis Farmer (and a whole bunch of other people) get an ice-pick lobotomy from a psychiatrist in the 1950s?Psychiatrists of yore performed some pretty barbaric treatments on their patients.It se...</description>
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            <title>ECT and Autism</title>
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            <description>This is not a reference to the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), the school in Canton, Massachusetts, which uses electroshock to &amp;#8220;address&amp;#8221; its students&amp;#8217; challenging behaviors. (To see a letter to the American Psychological Association about the JRC&amp;#8217;s use of &amp;#8220;aversive stimulation,&amp;#8221; go to Disabled SoapBox.)
I mentioned electroconvulsive therapy in the context of an event at the New York Academy of Sciences. It is entitled The History of Convulsive Therapy from Depression to Autism: Past Uses, Future Possibilities and here is some information:
This special event, co-sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine&amp;#8217;s Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health and the Academy&amp;#8217;s Section on Psychiatry, celebrates the publication of Shock Therapy:...</description>
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I can never remember the dates o...</title>
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            <description>(Source: Bipolar Mo)</description>
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            <description>This study adds to the weight of evidence that one of the end results for antidepressant treatment is stimulating new brain cell growth. It is not clear whether this is related or not to these drugs' effects on serotonin or norepinephrine, but it appears it may be possible to bypass neurotransmitter mechanisms (and avoid their subsequent side effects) and go directly to neurogenesis. This may lead to some entirely new treatments for depression and bipolar disorder down the road (way down the road). (Source: Shrink Rap)</description>
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