Coenen, Volker Arnd http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-6283
Sajonz, Bastian
Prokop, Thomas
Reisert, Marco
Piroth, Tobias
Urbach, Horst
Jenkner, Carolin
Reinacher, Peter Christoph
Article History
Received: 25 July 2019
Accepted: 23 January 2020
First Online: 29 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: <i>VAC</i> receives an ongoing collaborative grant from BrainLab (Munich, Germany) for a postdoc position of mr; VAC has received minimal funding from Medtronic (USA) for two IIT (FORESEEI/II, “slMFB DBS in major depression”) and from Boston Scientific (CA, USA) for an ongoing IIT (FORESEE III, “slMFB DBS in major depression”). VAC serves as medical advisor for CorTec, Freiburg, Germany and Cortics, Munich, Germany. PCR has received travel/accommodations/meeting expenses from Boston Scientific (CA, USA) and BrainLab (Munich, Germany). Dr. Coenen has occasionally received travel support and honoraria for lecturing and consulting from Medtronic (USA, Europe) and Boston Scientific (USA). Dr. Coenen has ongoing IIT’s with Medtronic (USA; Europe) and Boston Scientific (USA) unrelated to this work. Dr. Coenen has an unrelated collaboration with BrainLab (Germany). Dr. Reinacher has occasionally received travel support and honoraria for lecturing and consulting from BrainLab (Germany) and Boston Scientific (USA). All other authors do not have any conflicts of interest related to this work.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (name of institute/committee) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.