A federal court of appeals ruled on Tuesday that a Massachusetts school for children with disabilities can continue administering electric shocks to its students. The school, along with a group of ...

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 ...

Thousands of women in England with mental health problems are being given electric shock treatment despite concerns the therapy can cause irreparable brain damage. NHS data seen by the The ...

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 ...

Congress is stepping into the battle over whether disabled students should be given painful electric shocks as part of their therapy, bringing hope to advocates that the practice will finally come to ...

Two recent pieces of legislation are renewing a long-running fight over the practice of using electric shocks on people with disabilities as a behavior modification tool — and the role of New York ...

Thank you to the editorial board for examining the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center’s use of shock therapy (“Electric shock should no longer be a form of student discipline,” Aug. 1). The ...

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Forget the horror stories of misguided psychiatrists fitting electrodes the temples of people in order to relieve a malaise — electric treatment of the brain is said to be a successful means for ...

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 ...