The Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, a private Massachusetts residential and day school, has for decades used shock therapy on students with developmental and emotional disabilities to curb ...

Facing mounting pressure and at least one criminal investigation over its use of shock therapy on its wards, a Massachusetts clinic that is home to several District of Columbia students has gone ...

Mass. school prevails despite decades of opposition to its use of shocks for therapy. FDA trying again to stop the shocks is the latest effort to ban aversive treatment ...

SJC says Rotenberg Center can continue electric skin shock therapy; ... the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Canton-based school ... the SJC ruled against lifting a 36-year-old ...

Electroconvulsive therapy used to be called electroshock therapy and it was developed in 1938 to treat certain mental disorders. Its history is not a rosy one.

Two recent studies may have discovered how electroconvulsive therapy is so effective at alleviating some mental illnesses, especially severe depression, something that has puzzled psychiatrists ...