The Global ECT-MRI Research Collaboration was founded at a collaborative meeting in Bergen in June 2015, and is coordinated by Leif Oltedal. The principal idea behind this initiative is that collaboration and mega-analyses of combined study data will lead to new discoveries. In the first phase, GEMRIC will include up to 550 subjects including patients (clinical and neuroimaging data before and after ECT) and controls (healthy or patients with depression that receive other treatments). However, with our latest study “The GEMRIC study for determining the mechanisms of action of electroconvulsive therapy”, the collaboration will be extended and we aim at increasing the sample size to 2000 subjects.
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Mohn Medical Imaging Visualization Centre
Publications
2017
Leif Oltedal, Hauke Bartsch, Ole Johan Evjenth Sørhaug, Ute Kessler, Christopher Abbott, Annemieke Dols, Max L Stek, Lars Ersland, Louise Emsell, Philip van Eijndhoven, Miklos Argyelan,Indira Tendolkar, Pia Nordanskog, Paul Hamilton, Martin Balslev Jorgensen, Iris E Sommer,Sophie M Heringa, Bogdan Draganski, Ronny Redlich, Udo Dannlowski, Harald Kugel, Filip Bouckaert, Pascal Sienaert, Amit Anand, Randall Espinoza, Katherine L Narr, Dominic Holland, Anders M Dale, Ketil J Oedegaard
The Global ECT-MRI Research Collaboration (GEMRIC) Establishing a multi-site investigation.pdf NeuroImage: Clinical 14 (2017) 422–432
2018
Leif Oltedal, Katherine L. Narr, Christopher Abbott, Amit Anand, Miklos Argyelan, Hauke Bartsch, Udo Dannlowski, Annemieke Dols, Philip van Eijndhoven, Louise Emsell, Vera Jane Erchinger, Randall Espinoza, Tim Hahn, Lars G. Hanson, Gerhard Hellemann, Martin Balslev Jorgensen, Ute Kessler, Mardien L. Oudega, Olaf B. Paulson, Ronny Redlich, Pascal Sienaert, Max L. Stek, Indira Tendolkar, Mathieu Vandenbulcke, Ketil J. Oedegaard, Anders M. Dale
Volume of the hippocampal and clinical response following ECT.pdf Biological psychiatry, (2018), doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.05.017.
GEMRIC board members and sites
GEMRIC members list
Ongoing analyses in GEMRIC