Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How electroconvulsive therapy is saving autistic kids
You usually can’t talk about “electric shock therapy” without mentioning “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” In the 1975 film, Jack Nicholson’s character gets an electric shock that sends him into a seizure.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readYou usually can’t talk about “electric shock therapy” without mentioning “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” In the 1975 film, Jack Nicholson’s character gets an electric shock that sends him into a seizure. But the real procedure, called electroconvulsive therapy, doesn’t look like it did in the movie, and it works well for people with severe depression and bipolar disorder. Now it’s being used for special cases of children with autism.
Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
KCRW Staff
KCRW Staff
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Jolie Myers
Managing Producer, 'Press Play'
Apoorva Mandavilli
Pulitzer Prize-winning science and global health reporter at The New York Times
Charles Kellner
psychiatrist