Sentences with phrase «of electroshock therapy»

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.