Sentences with phrase «in electroshock therapy»

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

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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.

Electroconvulsive therapy, also known as electroshock or ECT, is a type of psychiatric shock therapy involving the induction of an artificial seizure in a patient by passing electricity through the brain.

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

Changing brain chemistry Unlike with electroconvulsive, or electroshock, therapy, where patients must be unconscious and administered muscle relaxants in order to prevent seizures, patients receiving rTMS (which involves trains of pulses during each session, hence the «repetitive» modifier) remain conscious and seated in outpatient settings.

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

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.

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.

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.

It reminds me of stuff you see in Psychology textbooks from the 50s and 60s when they get into electroshock therapy.

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