Yang Yongxin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yang Yongxin
Occupation	Psychiatrist
Date Of Birth	Jun 21, 1962(1962-06-21)
Age	62
Birthplace	Linyi
Country	China
Birth City	Shandong
Horoscope	Gemini

Yang Yongxin Biography

Yang Yongxin is one of the most popular and richest Psychiatrist who was born on June 21, 1962 in Linyi, Shandong, China.

Yang Yongxin (Chinese: 杨永信 ) (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.

The machine Yang used for ECT treatments is a DX-IIA ECT device, manufactured by a Shanghai pharmaceutical company from 1996 to 2000. The manufacturer warned of impaired cognition as a side effect. Chinese health regulation had stopped the device from being manufactured since 2000, and reports brought into question whether Yang acquired these devices illegally.

Yang Yongxin Net Worth

Yang Yongxin is one of the richest Psychiatrist from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yang Yongxin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Yang was born in June 1962 in the Chinese city of Linyi, Shandong province. He graduated from Yishui Medical School, a vocational school in Yishui, Shandong, with a degree in Clinical Medicine in 1982.

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Who is Yang Yongxin Dating?

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In July 2009, the Chinese Ministry of Health issued an official ban on the use of electroconvulsive therapy in treating Internet addiction, citing a lack of evidence as to its effectiveness. However, Yang’s treatment center continued to operate after the ban by providing “low-frequency-pulse electronic acupuncture” instead of ECT; critics protested that Yang’s new therapeutic methods were designed to torture patients and called for an end to Yang’s practice altogether.

Facts & Trivia

Levon Ranked on the list of most popular Psychiatrist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Yang Yongxin celebrates birthday on June 21 of every year.

In 2009, China Youth Daily publicized the news of a patient who escaped from Yang’s treatment center. He jumped from a second-floor window at the treatment center. The report alleged that Yang’s ECT therapy triggered cardiac arrhythmia in the escaped patient, questioning the safety of Yang’s therapy.