Deep depression is so intractable that even electroshock therapy takes a week to kick in.

FORBES: Magazine Article

It also discusses electroshock stun technology, riot shields and other devices used by prison guards and police officers.

CNN: U.S. accused of human rights abuses in prisons

In 2000 Yale's Ronald Duman found that numerous antidepressants, as well as therapies such as electroshock, boost neurogenesis.

FORBES: Think Happy

Word got out that Eagleton had been treated for depression, with electroshock therapy.

NPR: To Tell or Not? Disclosing Candidate Health Issues

Like many great artists, Horowitz suffered from extreme mood swings, and even submitted himself to electroshock therapy in the 1960s to alleviate his bipolar symptoms.

NPR: Horowitz Rediscovered At Carnegie Hall

Electroshock therapy, the decades-old treatment of last resort for depression, indiscriminately blasts the entire head to induce seizures and jar patients out of their blues.

FORBES: Rewiring the brain

Take Tom Eagleton, who admitted undergoing electroshock therapy.

CNN: By Eileen O'Connor/

By the fireside, some of the gauchos talked about electroshock therapy, while others spoke like professional sports commentators, except that they were commenting on a match played long ago, when they were twenty or thirty and belonged to some gang of hooligans.

NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho