Use of the shock device is a consequence of the inappropriate behavior. A Massachusetts school for special needs children can continue to use a form of electric shock therapy on students after a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Judge Rotenberg Center, once again the center of national controversy over its use of painful electric shocks to treat intellectually or developmentally disabled patients, is a place of last ...

Electrotherapy using injectable nanoparticles delivered directly into the tumor could pave the way for new treatment options for glioblastoma, according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden.

Capacitive resistive electric transfer therapy is a non-invasive treatment modality that employs radiofrequency energy at approximately 448 kHz to induce both thermal and non-thermal effects in ...