General Psychology

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), or shock therapy, has been used to treat depression and other mental disorders since its invention in the 1...

ECT works by placing an electrode on one side of the head and a brief current is turned on. The current triggers seizures that w...

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), commonly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is the result of a traumatic event. With Post Traumat...

      Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it challenging for people to tell the difference between what is and is not re...

This article specifically discusses the liability issues with violence associated with sleepwalking. In addition, sleepw...

Parents who are accused or believed of abusing their children have been a major focus in fields of psychology for many years. Both the chil...

    In this study, scientists studied the genetics of five disorder: schizophrenia  severe depression, bipolar disorder, autism and ADHD.  T...