Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10298597 | European Neuropsychopharmacology | 2016 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
We corroborate earlier findings of hippocampal and amygdala GM volume increase following an acute ECT series in patients with MDE. Temporal GM volume increase was significant on a whole brain level and further corroborated by a cortical thickness analysis. Our data widely exclude white matter loss as an indirect cause of GM growth. Our data add further evidence to the hypothesis that ECT enables plasticity falsifying older ideas of ECT induced “brain damaging”.
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Authors
Alexander Sartorius, Traute Demirakca, Andreas Böhringer, Christian Clemm von Hohenberg, Suna Su Aksay, Jan Malte Bumb, Laura Kranaster, Gabriele Ende,