• The effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) on serum tryptophan metabolites 

      Aarsland, Tore Ivar Malmei; Leskauskaite, Ieva; Midttun, Øivind; Ulvik, Arve; Ueland, Per Magne; Oltedal, Leif; Erchinger, Vera Jane; Ødegaard, Ketil Joachim; Haavik, Jan; Kessler, Ute (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-05-31)
      Background: Prior studies suggest that activation of the tryptophan catabolism via the kynurenine pathway by proinflammatory cytokines may be involved in the pathophysiology of depression. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) ...
    • Effective resting-state connectivity in severe unipolar depression before and after electroconvulsive therapy 

      ten Doesschate, Freek; Bruin, Willem; Zeidman, Peter; Abbott, Christopher C.; Argyelan, Miklos; Dols, Annemieke; Emsell, Louise; van Eijndhoven, Philip F.P.; van Exel, Eric; Mulders, Peter C.R.; Narr, Katherine; Tendolkar, Indira; Rhebergen, Didi; Sienaert, Pascal; Vandenbulcke, Mathieu; Verdijk, Joey; van Verseveld, Mike; Bartsch, Hauke; Oltedal, Leif; van Waarde, Jeroen A.; van Wingen, Guido A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Background Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is one of the most effective treatments for severe depressive disorders. A recent multi-center study found no consistent changes in correlation-based (undirected) resting-state ...
    • Multimodal multi-center analysis of electroconvulsive therapy effects in depression: Brainwide gray matter increase without functional changes 

      van de Mortel, L.A.; Bruin, W.B.; Thomas, R.M.; Abbott, C.; Argyelan, M.; van Eijndhoven, P.; Mulders, P.; Narr, K.L.; Tendolkar, I.; Verdijk, J.P.A.J.; van Waarde, J.A.; Bartsch, Hauke; Oltedal, Leif; van Wingen, G.A. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is an effective treatment for severe depression and induces gray matter (GM) increases in the brain. Small-scale studies suggest that ECT also leads to changes in brain functioning, ...
    • Short and long-term effects of single and multiple sessions of electroconvulsive therapy on brain gray matter volumes 

      Brancati, Giulio Emilio; Brekke, Njål; Bartsch, Hauke; Sørhaug, Ole Johan Evjenth; Ousdal, Olga Therese; Hammar, Åsa Karin; Schuster, Peter Moritz; Ødegaard, Ketil Joachim; Kessler, Ute; Oltedal, Leif (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been shown to induce broadly distributed cortical and subcortical volume increases, more prominently in the amygdala and the hippocampus. Structural changes after one ECT ...
    • Structural changes induced by electroconvulsive therapy are associated with clinical outcome 

      Mulders, Peter C. R.; Llera, Alberto; Beckmann, Christian F.; Vandenbulcke, Mathieu; Stek, Max L; Sienaert, Pascal; Redlich, Ronny; Petrides, Georgios; Oudega, Mardien L.; Oltedal, Leif; Ødegaard, Ketil Joachim; Narr, Katherine L; Magnusson, Peter; Kessler, Ute; Jorgensen, Anders; Espinoza, Randall; Enneking, Verena; Emsell, Louise; Dols, Annemieke; Dannlowski, Udo; Bolwig, Tom G; Bartsch, Hauke; Argyelan, Miklos; Anand, Amit; Abbott, Christopher; van Eijndhoven, Philip; Tendolkar, Indira (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      Background Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the most effective treatment option for major depressive disorder, so understanding whether its clinical effect relates to structural brain changes is vital for current and ...