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Shock therapy describes a set of techniques used in psychiatry to treat depressive disorder or other mental illnesses. It covers multiple forms, such as inducing seizures or other extreme brain states, or acting as a painful method of aversive conditioning. [1] Two types of shock therapy are currently practiced:
A depressed Homer visits Moe's Tavern, where he sees a television advertisement for Dr. Marvin Monroe's Family Therapy Center. Enticed by Monroe's guarantee of "family bliss or double your money back", Homer decides to sign the Simpsons up for an appointment. To his family's chagrin, Homer pawns their television to pay for the $250 therapy ...
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial therapy used to treat certain mental illnesses such as major depressive disorder, schizophrenia, depressed bipolar disorder, manic excitement, and catatonia. [1] These disorders are difficult to live with and often very difficult to treat, leaving individuals suffering for long periods of time.
In a wilderness context where counseling, psychotherapy, and cognitive behavioral therapy is unlikely to be available, the treatment for acute stress reaction is very similar to the treatment of cardiogenic shock, vascular shock, and hypovolemic shock; that is, allowing the patient to lie down, providing reassurance, and removing the stimulus ...
Emil Post, American mathematician, died in 1954 of a heart attack following electroshock treatment for depression; [39] [40] he was 57. Bud Powell, American jazz musician [41] Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter [42] [43] Marilyn Rice, anti-electroconvulsive therapy activist [44] Paul Robeson, American bass singer and actor [45]
Boston’s Triston Casas homered in his first three at-bats on Sunday in the opener of a split doubleheader against the Minnesota Twins. The 24-year-old Casas drove in seven runs in Boston’s 8-1 ...
The 8-year-old identical twins from Los Angeles have quickly amassed quite the internet following -- over 1.5 million on Instagram, to be exact! -- thanks to their gorgeous looks.
Magnetic seizure therapy (MST) is a proposed form of electrotherapy and electrical brain stimulation. It is currently being investigated for the treatment of major depressive disorder , treatment-resistant depression (TRD), bipolar depression , schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder .