Gibson, Raechelle M.
Ray, Laura B.
Laforge, Geoffrey
Owen, Adrian M.
Fogel, Stuart M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
CIFAR
Canada Excellence Research Chairs, Government of Canada (215063)
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (408004)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (390057)
Article History
Received: 9 March 2020
Revised: 8 July 2020
Accepted: 10 July 2020
First Online: 15 July 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Both the patient and control studies were approved by the appropriate local ethics committee at Western University (London, Canada) and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the Canadian Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans 2 [CitationRef removed]. For the control studies, all participants gave their informed consent prior to their inclusion in the study. For the behaviourally non-responsive patients, each patient’s designated substitute decision-maker gave their informed consent prior to the patient’s inclusion in the study.