Basic information on the preclinical studies included in the meta-analysis.

A all studies assessed male animals. Sartorius et al.[31] and Gersner et al.[51] did not specify the sex of the animals they used.Bn is given per group and, in general can be doubled for the experimental vs sham comparison.All studies applied sham ECT as the control condition, except for the study by Sartorius et al.[31] in which baseline was considered as the control condition.In the S5 Table we present additional information on the included preclinical studies (e.g., age and weight of the animals).Basic information on the preclinical studies included in the meta-analysis.