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Place of Birth: Linyi, Shandong, China
About Yang Yongxin
- Yang Yongxin (Chinese: ???) (born 21 June 1962) is a highly controversial Chinese clinical psychiatrist who advocated and practiced electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) without anaesthesia or muscle relaxants as a cure for alleged Internet addiction in adolescents.
- Yang is currently deputy chief of the Fourth Hospital of Linyi (Linyi Mental Hospital), in the Shandong province of China.
- He runs the Internet Addiction Treatment Center at the hospital. According to media reports, families of teenaged patients sent to the hospital paid CNY 5,500 (US$805) per month to be treated using a combination of psychiatric medication and ECT, which Yang dubbed as "xingnao" (Chinese: ??, brain-waking) treatment.
- He treated 3000 children before the practice was prohibited by the Chinese Ministry of Health.
- Yang claimed that 96% of his patients had shown signs of improvement, a figure that was questioned by the Chinese media.
- Since the ban, Yang has used 'low-frequency pulse therapy', a treatment of his own devising alleged by former patients to be more painful than ECT.
- In 2016, the center claimed to have treated more than 6000 adolescents.
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