Sentences with phrase «electroshock therapy»

We get bouts of electroshock therapy of a particularly harsh degree and, more frighteningly, both Kingsley and David Thewlis in cackling, bulging - eyed close - up, portraying asylum staffers you wouldn't trust with your brain, your secrets or anything else.

Stopped at a red light on his drive home from work, Karl Deisseroth contemplates one of his patients, a woman with depression so entrenched that she had been unresponsive to drugs and electroshock therapy for years.

The FDA is considering whether the machines used in electroshock therapy should be more tightly regulated than they are now.

She had also undergone electroshock therapy.

Yes, internet addiction camps are no longer allowed to use electroshock therapy and violence in their treatments, but the bootcamps continue to exist and use dangerous practices under the radar, and a teenager died at one such facility just a couple of weeks ago.

The Tough Mudder New England 2017 course will once again make use of Mount Snow's varied and steep terrain, and will feature mud, ice - cold water, barbed wire, electric shocks and other obstacles, including old standbys like Electroshock Therapy and new challenges like Kong.

Astoundingly, in 2010, Elberling reported on a single case study where electroshock therapy (ECT) actually put severe chemical intolerances in remission.

Using electricity to affect the brain makes tms sound similar to electroconvulsive therapy, alias electroshock therapy.

Early on she received electroshock therapy and insulin shock therapy, in which doctors induced a coma by lowering her blood sugar level.

It isn't too different from how electroshock therapy works to counter certain mental illnesses and how deep - brain stimulation smooths motion disorders such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

The guide told us that after receiving more than 20 rounds of electroshock therapy at Mayo Clinic as a treatment for depression, Hemingway fatally shot himself with his double - barreled shotgun.

Interested in the viability of electroshock therapy in improving intelligence tests?

Forced to undergo electroshock therapy to cure him of his delusions, O'Toole no longer believes himself to be Christ — he believes he's Jack the Ripper instead.

Individual events regularly attract over 10,000 people who complete courses between 10 to 12 miles long that include obstacles with names like Everest, Birth Canal, Electroshock Therapy, Just the Tip, and Fire In Your Hole.

The facility used straight jackets, electroshock therapy, and lobotomies as methods of treatment for mental illnesses.

With America in the midst of a collective nervous breakdown (our suicide rate surpasses even our murder rate, if there was any doubt on that score), the American Dream has been reduced to a mental patient strapped into an electroshock therapy bed clenching our flag between gritting teeth.

The Danish Girl is at its most fascinating when it explores the medical reaction to Lili's realization — she's diagnosed as schizophrenic and homosexual, and recommended for commitment to an asylum for electroshock therapy.

However, he was hospitalized for emotional difficulties during brief military service, and given large quantities of medicine and electroshock therapy.

Beginning with Reed's childhood in Long Island, New York, and the harrowing details of his electroshock therapy that was meant to «cure» him of his bisexuality, Bockris goes on to chronicle the artistic and personal milestones in his life.

Additional therapies include radiation treatment to clear blocked arteries, insertion of a pacemaker, heart transplant, and cardioversion (electroshock therapy)

Its idle alerts are more like a joybuzzer than electroshock therapy, causing the bracelet to vibrate whenever you're inactive for a set amount of time.