Functional electrical stimulation for major depressive disorder: Protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial

• Fatemeh Gholamali Nezhad,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interventional Psychiatry Program, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Haochen Yu,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interventional Psychiatry Program, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Ilya Demchenko,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Interventional Psychiatry Program, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7876-4981

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• Stephanie N. Iwasa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CRANIA, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Stephanie DiNunzio,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Rayna Ghosh,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• José Zariffa,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8842-745X

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• Kei Masani,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Lyndhurst Centre, KITE Research Institute–University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0207-3241

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• Wendy Lou,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Benoit H. Mulsant,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0303-6450

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• Hani E. Naguib,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Milos R. Popovic,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, CRANIA, University Health Network and University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Venkat Bhat

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: venkat.bhat@utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Interventional Psychiatry Program, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Medical Science, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8768-1173

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