• Electroshock is the former terminology for electroconvulsive therapy with electric shocks to the skull. (wikipedia.org)
  • Electroconvulsive therapy, commonly known as electroshock or ECT, is being given to an estimated 100,000 Americans each year-and 1.4 million worldwide [1] -despite global health authorities' recognition that it causes brain damage. (cchrint.org)
  • During the May 2013 annual conference of the American Psychiatric Association ( APA), a study was presented, alleging that Electroconvulsive Therapy, ECT, (formerly known as Electroshock) for adolescents "is a safe, reasonably well-tolerated, and effective treatment. (healthimpactnews.com)
  • She hosts the website ectjustice.com and is pursuing a national class action product liability suit around the devices used in electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock. (kboo.fm)
  • For addition free information see http://www.ECTresources.org or read Dr. Breggin's medical book, Brain-Disabling Treatments in Psychiatry: Drugs, Electroshock and the Psychopharmaceutial Complex, Second Edition (2008). (ectjustice.com)
  • Yet if psychiatry decides a child has capacity to consent, they can admit themselves to a psychiatric facility, consent to the administration of psychiatric drugs, electroshock if the child is over 14 years of age and psychosurgery if they are over 16 years of age. (cchr.org.au)
  • Electroshock may also refer to: Electroshock (album), a 2012 album by Kate Ryan Electroshock (wrestler) (born 1970), Edgar Luna Pozos, a Mexican Luchador Electroshock weapon, a weapon used for incapacitating a person by administering electric shock Electric Shock (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Electroshock. (wikipedia.org)
  • If Stinger had a serious electroshock weapon that wasn't a firearm, it could compete with Taser. (theverge.com)
  • Forkæl dine nerveender med en pirrende, chokerende kombination af rumlende vibrationer og pulserende elektrostimulation med denne fjernbetjente G- og P-punkts vibrator fra Electroshock. (yngresagen.dk)
  • Når der skal investeres i nyt sexlegetøj, er produkterne fra Electroshock som for eksempel denne Electroshock Fjernbetjent G og P-punkts Vibrator - Sort. (yngresagen.dk)
  • Det er efterhånden velkendt at online shoppere køber deres Electroshock Fjernbetjent G og P-punkts Vibrator - Sort ved den velkendte shop Sinful.dk, som ikke bare er en døgnflue, men har bevist sit eksistensgrundlag gennem lang tid. (yngresagen.dk)
  • In 1984, as co-chair of the Ontario Coalition to Stop Electroshock , I was involved in mounting an official public hearing involving four days of shock testimony by shock survivors. (madinamerica.com)
  • Electroshock convulsive therapy (ECT), better known as shock treatment, "works" by passing an electric current through one or both frontal lobes of the brain, causing an electrical lobotomy. (ectjustice.com)
  • Australian psychiatrist Niall McLaren, who is outspoken about electroshock, advises patients that any psychiatrist who tells them "'You need ECT' is really only saying, 'I don't know what else to do. (cchrint.org)
  • The Scottish-born psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron infamously conducted intense electroshock in patients in the US without their informed consent in the 1940s and 1950s. (dmovies.org)
  • Psychiatrist Peter Breggin discusses the brain trauma caused by Electroshock (ECT). (ectjustice.com)
  • In 1979 Dr. Breggin published the first medical book critical of ECT, Electroshock: Its Brain-Disabling Effects (New York: Springer Publishing Company). (breggin.com)
  • Surgeon and author Sherwin Nuland discusses the development of electroshock therapy as a cure for severe, life-threatening depression -- including his own. (ted.com)
  • The Food & Drug Administration is studying whether to downgrade the risk classification of electroshock devices, reinforcing what many psychiatrists consider a deepening acceptance of electroshock in modern therapy, reports The New York Times . (massdevice.com)
  • Electroshock treatment (ECT) was developed in 1938 at a time that lobotomy and insulin coma therapy were already in use. (breggin.com)
  • Electroshock therapy and brain damage: the acute organic brain syndrome as treatment," The Brain and Behavioral Sciences 7 (1984) 24-25. (breggin.com)
  • She attempted suicide and spent 6 weeks in an asylum in Nice, where she was treated with electroshock therapy and then, effectively, art therapy, per The New York Times . (medscape.com)
  • While depressed blood cholinesterase levels are a well known effect of some pesticide classes, they are also caused by other medical conditions, including pregnancy, stroke, ALS, and electroshock therapy. (cdc.gov)
  • Activist Laura Ziegler gives an overview of events this past month as the New York Office of Mental Health gave nine (9) last-minute electroshocks to Simone D., before her attorneys finally won a court battle on 28 August 2007 for her right to say "no" to forced electroshock. (mindfreedom.org)
  • Mental health watchdog advises that recent global mental health human rights guideline warns electroshock can cause brain damage, citing U.S. manual. (cchrint.org)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights' (OHCHR) recent guidance on Mental Health, Human Rights, and Legislation , says informed consent for the damaging procedure must include that it causes brain damage, citing a U.S. electroshock device manufacturer's manual confirming this effect. (cchrint.org)
  • The National Institute of Justice also released a report panning Stinger's main electroshock gun, stating that the Stinger was less reliable, less accurate, and less durable than Taser's X26. (theverge.com)
  • On June 27, 2007, the New York State Court of Appeals upheld an order by Queens Supreme Court Justice Roger Rosengarten authorizing Creedmoor Psychiatric Center to forcibly administer electroshock to Simone D. This order once again became effective when the stay pending appeal expired on July 23. (mindfreedom.org)
  • Look up electroshock in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. (wikipedia.org)
  • After receiving electroshock again in the early 80's , she eventually got free from psychiatric harm in 2000 and has been drug free for the last 18 years. (kboo.fm)
  • This is an accessory for contact plate-electroshock devices, which are used against martens in vehicles. (kemo-electronic.de)
  • Karbon Arms' MPID electroshock gun was designed to compete with similar products by Taser International. (theverge.com)
  • While Taser has a huge market share today and recently expanded into body-worn police cameras , its only products in 2002 were variations on its flagship device, the electroshock gun. (theverge.com)
  • Every day Americans are put at risk of brain damage from electroshock and are likely never warned of this because psychiatrists dismiss the documented adverse effect. (cchrint.org)
  • According to the report, on February 22, 2022, a Smithfield employee "indiscriminately" electroshocked several pigs in the face with an electric prod-creating an audible "sizzle" upon contact-and yelled "explicit vulgar words" while unloading the animals. (peta.org)
  • Mary Maddock, on the phone from Ireland, is also an electroshock survivor, who received modified 'ECT' without informed consent for the first time in the late 70s, just 3 days after childbirth, having been drugged beforehand. (kboo.fm)
  • Crawford County, Iowa - Following a recently obtained federal report documenting that pigs were electroshocked in the face and beaten on the head at the Smithfield Fresh Meats Corp. slaughterhouse in Denison, PETA fired off a letter today to Crawford County Attorney Colin Johnson, calling on him to review the matter and, as appropriate, file criminal cruelty-to-animals charges against the workers responsible. (peta.org)
  • Here's a report from Don Weitz, one of the organizers of the Toronto protest of electroshock on Mother's Day, 13 May 2007. (mindfreedom.org)
  • Host Paul Roland welcomes back Deborah Schartzkopff, anti-electroshock activist based in McMinnville. (kboo.fm)
  • Apparently Dr. Puffer justifies the use of electroshock on children, because "there are no tonic clonic (grand mal) movements that are typical of a full-blown seizure. (healthimpactnews.com)
  • The man behind Karbon is Robert Gruder, a Tampa, Florida businessman whose history is as far removed from electroshock weapons as anyone could expect. (theverge.com)
  • To assess the effect of 3 calcium channel antagonists (amlodipine, diltiazem, and verapamil) on the anticonvulsant action of topiramate (a new generation antiepileptic drug) in the mouse maximal electroshock seizure (MES) model. (nih.gov)
  • Electroshock, variously known as electroconvulsive therapy, ECT, shock treatment, or simply shock, is the practice of applying 70 to 150 volts of household electric current to the human brain in order to produce a grand mal, or generalized, seizure. (healthyplace.com)
  • The early identification of anticonvulsant activity: role of the maximal electroshock and subcutaneous pentylenetetrazol seizure models. (nih.gov)
  • Progesterone decreases cortical excitability, by enhancing GABA effects, and increases electroshock seizure threshold in experimental models. (medscape.com)
  • Electroshock may also refer to: Electroshock (album), a 2012 album by Kate Ryan Electroshock (wrestler) (born 1970), Edgar Luna Pozos, a Mexican Luchador Electroshock weapon, a weapon used for incapacitating a person by administering electric shock Electric Shock (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Electroshock. (wikipedia.org)
  • For the full story of how shock survivors and other advocates have fought for a scientific safety investigation of Electroshock for the past 25 years, see Linda Andre 's new book, Doctors of Deception: What They Don't Want You to Know About Shock Treatment . (narpa.org)
  • They simply point to the opinions of shock doctors (including those who have financial interests in companies making Electroshock machines) as evidence that shock is safe. (narpa.org)
  • As early as World War I, psychiatrists used electroshock on soldiers "complaining" about battle fatigue or neurosis. (prnewswire.com)
  • This is documented in his song "Kill Your Sons": "All your two-bit psychiatrists are giving you electroshock. (cchrint.org)
  • Electroshock is the former terminology for electroconvulsive therapy with electric shocks to the skull. (wikipedia.org)
  • Breeding was instrumental in helping obtain a Texas ban on electroshocking children and adolescents younger than 16 and Texas now has one of the strongest ECT reporting laws. (prnewswire.com)
  • The event was held to raise awareness about electroshock (ECT) and to support a ban on its use, as the American Psychiatric Association (APA) is actively lobbying the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates the electroshock device, to increase its use. (prnewswire.com)
  • Harwell had undergone a dozen rounds of electroshock and was taken off psychiatric drugs immediately prior to the unprovoked attack. (prnewswire.com)
  • Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway was incarcerated in a psychiatric institution and given 20 electroshocks, subsequently committing suicide. (cchrint.org)
  • This week, ANCOR joined a letter from the Consortium for Constituents with Disabilities' Developmental Disabilities, Autism, and Family Support Task Force asking Congressional leaders to include a ban on electroshock devices used as behavioral control on people with disabilities in the end-of-year FY 2023 funding package. (ancor.org)
  • Electroshock adalah sebuah filem animasi pendek yang diarah oleh Hugo Jackson, Pascal Chandelier, Velentin Michel, Bastein Mortelecque and Elliot Marendibawah penyeliaan Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques (ESMA) atau dikenali sebagai School of Artistic Trades. (nazrulakram.com)
  • 1] Studies report that stopping psychotropic drugs can cause violent withdrawal affects, let alone the added violence of electroshock to the brain. (prnewswire.com)
  • The Food and Drug Administration is in charge of regulating medical devices just as it does drugs, including the machines used to give Electroshock. (narpa.org)
  • In Germany , soldiers were electroshocked using a strong alternating current combined with verbal suggestions in the form of military-style commands. (prnewswire.com)
  • The amount of damage that electroshock has been allowed to inflict is an outrage. (narpa.org)
  • As a Class II device, Electroshock machines would never be required to go through the Pre-Market Approval process. (narpa.org)
  • The psychologists are concerned that already in 2015, more than 770 active military or their family members were given electroshock in addition to over 1,000 veterans or their family members, according to Tricare and Veteran Affair statistics. (prnewswire.com)
  • In addition, Leonard Roy Frank's Electroshock Quotationary is another good source of material, and there is also a new web page of historical materials from Leonard. (narpa.org)
  • Shots' Electroshock E-Stim Cock Ring With Ballstrap Black helps to maintain your erection longer and intensifies your play, using electrical currents to stimulate nerve endings in erogenous zones, sending shockwaves between the sheets. (inthegroove.com)
  • Many visitors are surprised to learn that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has never required clinical studies that prove electroshock is either safe or effective, despite being used for more than 80 years. (digestexpress.us)
  • Doctors in China are still offering electroshock therapies to "cure" gay people, according to an investigation by Britain's Channel 4. (hongkongfp.com)
  • Also, PsychRights has a large collection of materials at http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Electroshock/electroshock.htm from which comments can be drawn. (narpa.org)
  • The circuit courts have ruled with language that is unequivocal: Michigan's Mental Health Code prohibits the administration of involuntary electroshock to an adult who has no guardian. (healthyplace.com)