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¹ The ResPECT (Research in Psychiatry and ECT) group: Harm-Pieter Spaans, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands. Email: hp.spaans@parnassia.nl. Pascal Sienaert, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University Psychiatric Centre - KU Leuven, campus Kortenberg, Belgium, Filip Bouckaert, University Psychiatric Centre - KU Leuven, campus Kortenberg, Belgium, Julia F. van den Berg, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, the Hague, The Netherlands, Esmée Verwijk, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, the Hague, The Netherlands, King H. Kho, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, the Hague, The Netherlands, Max L. Stek, Professor, Department of Elderly Psychiatry, VU University Medical Centre and GGZ in Geest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Rob M. Kok, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, the Hague, The Netherlands.

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. 2015 Feb;206(2):167-8.

doi: 10.1192/bjp.206.2.167a.

¹ The ResPECT (Research in Psychiatry and ECT) group: Harm-Pieter Spaans, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands. Email: hp.spaans@parnassia.nl. Pascal Sienaert, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University Psychiatric Centre - KU Leuven, campus Kortenberg, Belgium, Filip Bouckaert, University Psychiatric Centre - KU Leuven, campus Kortenberg, Belgium, Julia F. van den Berg, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, the Hague, The Netherlands, Esmée Verwijk, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, the Hague, The Netherlands, King H. Kho, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, the Hague, The Netherlands, Max L. Stek, Professor, Department of Elderly Psychiatry, VU University Medical Centre and GGZ in Geest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Rob M. Kok, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute, the Hague, The Netherlands.

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