MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'electroshock'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:50:49 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4670175&cid=t_148399_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2011%2F04%2F03%2Fect-an-update%2F ECT, current practice View more presentations from vdbroekw 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 – NIH Consensus Statements – NCBI Bookshelf Well written information about this treatment.   No related posts. (Source: Dr Shock MD PhD) Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4670175 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:50:00 +0100 4670175 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2984866&cid=t_148399_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2009%2F11%2F12%2Fblogging-about-ect-hands-on-experience%2F The best information in health care is from patients who have been there. Those who underwent treatment, suffer from a certain illness. It’s the kind of hands on experience physicians can’t deliver. On this blog I have collected some examples of these “hands on experiences”. 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... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2984866 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:08:21 +0100 2984866 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2916190&cid=t_148399_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2009%2F10%2F22%2Fect-update-a-year-later%2F 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’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... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2916190 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:48:29 +0100 2916190 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2855656&cid=t_148399_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2009%2F10%2F02%2Fect-lessons%2F 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.... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2855656 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:58:21 +0100 2855656 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2634646&cid=t_148399_140_f&fid=34849&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrouble.pwblogs.com%2F2009%2F07%2F23%2Fus-news-world-report-embarrasses-itself%2F Because someone is not doing their homework over there. Here’s the headline/subhead from a recent USN&WR article: ECT, checkered past and all, is making a quiet comeback Doesn’t that sound kind of familiar? That’s because you’ve read it before — numerous times. I’d say the most recent comeback article was last year in Newsweek: Shock therapy makes a [...] (Source: The Trouble With Spikol) The Trouble With Spikol blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2634646 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:37:08 +0100 2634646 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2602208&cid=t_148399_140_f&fid=34849&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrouble.pwblogs.com%2F2009%2F07%2F14%2Fdear-god-are-you-serious%2F Thanks to Susan S. for sending me an article about China using shock therapy to “cure” Internet addicts. It’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) The Trouble With Spikol blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2602208 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:28:55 +0100 2602208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2349671&cid=t_148399_140_f&fid=34849&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrouble.pwblogs.com%2F2009%2F04%2F17%2Fgrandfathering-ect-machines%2F I only had one grandfather as I grew up (the other was dead before I was born — a good thing, I was told), and he wasn’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) The Trouble With Spikol blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2349671 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:12:28 +0100 2349671 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2300329&cid=t_148399_140_f&fid=34849&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrouble.pwblogs.com%2F2009%2F03%2F27%2Fgo-see-linda-andre%2F 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’t Want You to Know About Shock Treatment. She’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’ll be there too. (Source: The Trouble With Spikol) The Trouble With Spikol blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2300329 Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:14:29 +0100 2300329 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2277994&cid=t_148399_140_f&fid=34849&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftrouble.pwblogs.com%2F2009%2F03%2F18%2Fforced-electroshock-never-acceptable%2F 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’s not to say it isn’t valuable for some people, but it should never be forced on someone who doesn’t want it. As Sanford’s mother says, a woman with breast [...] (Source: The Trouble With Spikol) The Trouble With Spikol blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2277994 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:46:30 +0100 2277994 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1449387&cid=t_148399_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F292106281%2F This past Thursday in Virginia, a 24 year old autistic man was tazered by James City County police after he was to “become unruly with employees at Wilsons Leather at the Prime Outlets-Williamsburg shopping mall,” according to the Daily Press. It was only after the man was placed under arrest and charged with trespassing and resisting arrest that police learned that he had Asperger’s Syndrome. Needless to say, incidents like these make training about autism for police and other first responders more than essential. The Daily Press quotes a James City Police spokesman, Mike Spearsman, as saying that the 24-year-old man was “‘rather large’”—-these are words that strike home with me more and more. Almost every day someone comments to me that Cha... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1449387 Sat, 17 May 2008 05:34:01 +0100 1449387 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1265175&cid=t_148399_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F242861051%2F Some interesting reviews from Toronto of Autism: The Musical which (EyeWeekly notes) offers a “real life alternative to Rain Man.” And, while I’m on the subject, two more musicals: In Brick Township, NJ, a “rock opera,” Day After Day, that is about “the daily struggles the families of autistic children face”; it’s being performed this Friday and has also been performed eight times in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York over the course of two months in 2004. On a slightly different note (sorry for the unintended pun), in New York there’s Next to Normal, the city’s “first mainstream musical about manic depression.” Housewife Diana is manic-depressive and, it seems, undergoes electro-shock treatment in the course of the... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1265175 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:34:45 +0100 1265175 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1192863&cid=t_148399_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F226896311%2F Whether or not a vaccine or something in a vaccine might be linked to autism is only one controversial topic in discussions about autism causation and treatment. Other controversial treatments include electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) and facilitated communication (FC). A recent comment about ECT notes that the current issue of Psychiatric Times contains a discussion of ECT and autism (though I’ve not yet noted the article on the website; will keep checking). James T. Todd, Ph.D., of the Eastern Michigan University Department of Psychology recently commented with details about a case involving a 14-year-old non-verbal autistic girl and FC. The girl, who is from West Bloomfield (Michigan), has accused her father of raping her repeatedly while her mother did not intervene; the girl c... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1192863 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:34:26 +0100 1192863 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=974294&cid=t_148399_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F174160136%2F This is not a reference to the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC), the school in Canton, Massachusetts, which uses electroshock to “address” its students’ challenging behaviors. (To see a letter to the American Psychological Association about the JRC’s use of “aversive stimulation,” 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’s Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health and the Academy’s Section on Psychiatry, celebrates the publication of Shock Therapy:... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=974294 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:27:48 +0100 974294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=914134&cid=t_148399_133_f&fid=35096&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAutismVox%2F%7E3%2F163022865%2F Jenny McCarthy, Autism Mother Regan writes on On the “high-functioning” and “low-functioning” “labels”: “My perspective is that in a single year my daughter was observed and defined as LFA, HFA and ModerateFA. So that’s how much that is worth, in my book. It is much more useful to us to consider specifics relating directly to my daughter and simply go with that.” Mandy writes: “Jenny McCarthy’s son is NOT autistic. More and more, we find kids who are developmentally delayed for a plehtora of complex reasons otherwise NOT related to autism—diagnosed with autism! This must stop. This is hurting familes who are raising with truly autistic children.” Jenny, We Hardly Knew Ye Marcie writes in response to a suggestion to send McC... Autism Vox blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=914134 Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:36:54 +0100 914134