New York City boutique studio Shock Therapy uses electric muscle stimulation and promises big results in less time—here's what happened when I tried it for myself. I used to go to this physical ...

Arun Rath: This is GBH’s All Things Considered. I’m Arun Rath. A lot of us might assume electric shock therapy is a thing of the past. It's been widely condemned by organizations like the U.S.

As a psychiatric treatment, elec- troconvulsive therapy has had an image problem. One result, say Edward Shorter and David Healy, was the near absence for decades of what is a very effective approach ...

ALBANY — A state legislative proposal would stop the state from spending millions of dollars a year for the care of severely disabled New Yorkers at a Massachusetts center that uses shock treatments ...

United Nations calls use of skin shocks on students at Mass. school "torture." June 30, 2010— -- It may look like any leafy New England campus, but inside one Massachusetts school for special ...