Listening to brain waves. To study how ECT treats depression, my team and I used a device called an electroencephalogram, or EEG.It measures the brain's electrical activity—or brain waves—via ...

The waves had not previously been reported in the entire 86-year history of ECT because they require newly created, specialized tools like optical neuroimaging to detect them.

When we don't understand how something works, we often fear it. That has been the case with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), but new research may be shedding needed light.

Electroconvulsive therapy has a public relations problem. The treatment, which sends electric currents through the brain to induce a brief seizure, has barbaric, inhumane connotations — for example, ...

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) is effective treatment for managing depression symptoms. Learn about its procedure, risk and side effects.

Depression affects millions of people globally, with pharmacologic therapy a mainstay of treatment. Treatments have also included procedures, such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), and more ...

After all available treatments had failed, a patient with severe depression found relief from an implanted device that delivers short pulses of electricity to specific spots in her brain.

“These kinds of brain waves are affected in mood disorders like depression and anxiety, so the possibility of being able to willfully control these through meditation is pretty amazing, and may ...

Brain waves travel in one direction when memories are made and the opposite when recalled Date: March 8, 2024 Source: Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science ...

Since the 1940s, ECT has been associated with increases in slow oscillations in the brain waves of patients. However, those slow oscillations have never been linked to how ECT works.