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Doctors Get a Clue About How Shock Therapy Works

Mar 20, 2012
It's long been a subject of controversy, as well as a few dramatic movie scenes, but electroconvulsive therapy, aka shock therapy, also appears to work when other treatments don't in some persistent cases of depression. Now the medical community has a little more insight into how it helps patients.

Norway Shooter Declared Insane

Nov 30, 2011
This may not come as particularly surprising news, but psychiatry experts tasked with examining Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian man who killed 77 people and injured 151 in a mass shooting in his home country last summer, have concluded that he is insane.

Antidepressant Nation

Jul 14, 2011
A serious conversation is under way in the United States on the subject of psychiatric drugs The debate consists of three fundamental issues: first, whether antidepressants actually treat depression; second, the vast, growing body of evidence that psychotropic medications (more).

The Big Business of Sex Addiction

Nov 16, 2010
Cast your mind back to a time before sex addiction qualified as a legitimate issue rather than a snarky euphemism (although for some that might still be the case) Hard to remember, what with the Bill Clintons and Tiger Woodses (continued).