NEW YORK (CN) - The 2nd Circuit vacated an injunction preventing New York from restricting the use of "aversive therapies" on special-needs students, including skin shocks, "contingent" food programs ...

To characterize the aversive therapy used at the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center http://www.judgerc.org/ (JRC) as torture, as Laurie Ahern of Disability Rights ...

Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses in the world, but current anti-depressants have yet to meet the needs of many patients. Neuroscientists recently discovered a small molecule that ...

The FDA proposed a ban on electrical stimulation devices (ESDs) used to reduce or stop self-injurious or aggressive behavior, the agency announced Monday. In a step "rarely" taken by the agency, the ...

Aversion therapy (AT) is a behavioral therapy that involves repeatedly pairing an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant experience with the goal of discouraging the undesirable behavior. Other names ...