New Hampshire is paying Concord-based Riverbend Mental Health Center $60,000 over two years for electroconvulsive shock ...

A Massachusetts school has won an appeal to use electric shock therapy on mentally disabled pupils. A federal court ruled that an earlier FDA ban on the therapy had been outside the agency's area of ...

After a lawyer for the New York Civil Liberties Union, Beth Haroules, concluded her statement yesterday condemning the use of electric shocks in schools, an angry, exasperated mother followed her out ...

A Massachusetts school for individuals with severe behavioral issues and intellectual disabilities can continue to use electric shock devices to stop students from harming themselves and others, a ...

And they feel lucky. The waitlist for treatment is three months long and growing, according to Shriti Patel, who oversees the ...

After years of tacitly endorsing the only facility in the country known to use electric shocks to address behavior in those with developmental disabilities, a major behavior analysis organization is ...

BOSTON — Vowing to work with families to find alternative therapies, Rep. Danielle Gregoire renewed her decade-long push to ban the use of a controversial electric shock device for people who have ...

Sept 7 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts institution for the developmentally disabled can continue to use controversial electric shock devices to address aggressive or self-harming behavior in residents, ...

The Public Health Committee of the Connecticut legislature is weighing a bill to extend the period of authorization to treat a person with electric shock therapy either with or without their consent.

The Judge Rotenberg Center, once again the center of national controversy over its use of painful electric shocks to treat intellectually or developmentally disabled patients, is a place of last ...

A Massachusetts school can continue using electric shock devices on its students with intellectual disabilities after the U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on the ...

Editor's note: The audio includes the sound of a teenager undergoing electric shock treatment. In the early 2000s, Cheryl McCollins enrolled her son Andre, who has autism and other developmental ...