Electric Mind is a cutting-edge documentary that ushers viewers through the hospitals, research centers, and clinics that are conducting groundbreaking research on the electricity of brain function as a treatment for conditions including depression, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, and dystonia.

Electric Mind shares the experiences of various patients receiving treatment using some of the field’s most novel techniques. The film follows the progress of a young girl with epilepsy whose treatment enables her to lead a normal life with her friends without the threat of seizures. It profiles a mid-career photographer, felled by intense depression, whose experience with deep brain stimulations yields considerable medical improvements. Lastly, it introduces viewers to an elderly woman who, after enduring many months of inability to respond to stimuli or remember recent history, shows tangible improvements following her treatments.

Renowned neurologists, psychiatrists, and surgeons discuss questions of medical ethics, brain-body/brain-mind interactions, and issues of personal identity. While the prospect of using technology to manipulate patients’ minds and behaviors has long captured the human imagination, Electric Mind illustrates how recent advances are successfully bringing the promise of relief to many suffering from brain disorders.

Western Psychological Association Conference, 2012

Margaret Mead Film Festival, 2010

Pariscience, 2010

Winner, Best Research ‒ DocAviv, 2010