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Tahmasian M, Aleman A, Andreassen OA, Arab Z, Baillet M, Benedetti F, Bresser T, Bright J, Chee MW, Chylinski D, Cheng W, Deantoni M, Dresler M, Eickhoff SB, Eickhoff CR, Elvsåshagen T, Feng J, Foster-Dingley JC, Ganjgahi H, Grabe HJ, Groenewold NA, Ho TC, Hong SB, Houenou J, Irungu B, Jahanshad N, Khazaie H, Kim H, Koshmanova E, Kocevska D, Kochunov P, Lakbila-Kamal O, Leerssen J, Li M, Luik AI, Muto V, Narbutas J, Nilsonne G, O’Callaghan VS, Olsen A, Osorio RS, Poletti S, Poudel G, Reesen JE, Reneman L, Reyt M, Riemann D, Rosenzweig I, Rostampour M, Saberi A, Schiel J, Schmidt C, Schrantee A, Sciberras E, Silk TJ, Sim K, Smevik H, Soares JC, Spiegelhalder K, Stein DJ, Talwar P, Tamm S, Teresi GI, Valk SL, Van Someren E, Vandewalle G, Van Egroo M, Völzke H, Walter M, Wassing R, Weber FD, Weihs A, Westlye LT, Wright MJ, Wu MJ, Zak N, Zarei M. ENIGMA-Sleep: Challenges, opportunities, and the road map. J Sleep Res 2021; 30:e13347. [PMID: 33913199 PMCID: PMC8803276 DOI: 10.1111/jsr.13347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2021] [Revised: 03/14/2021] [Accepted: 03/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Neuroimaging and genetics studies have advanced our understanding of the neurobiology of sleep and its disorders. However, individual studies usually have limitations to identifying consistent and reproducible effects, including modest sample sizes, heterogeneous clinical characteristics and varied methodologies. These issues call for a large-scale multi-centre effort in sleep research, in order to increase the number of samples, and harmonize the methods of data collection, preprocessing and analysis using pre-registered well-established protocols. The Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) consortium provides a powerful collaborative framework for combining datasets across individual sites. Recently, we have launched the ENIGMA-Sleep working group with the collaboration of several institutes from 15 countries to perform large-scale worldwide neuroimaging and genetics studies for better understanding the neurobiology of impaired sleep quality in population-based healthy individuals, the neural consequences of sleep deprivation, pathophysiology of sleep disorders, as well as neural correlates of sleep disturbances across various neuropsychiatric disorders. In this introductory review, we describe the details of our currently available datasets and our ongoing projects in the ENIGMA-Sleep group, and discuss both the potential challenges and opportunities of a collaborative initiative in sleep medicine.
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Affiliation(s)
- Masoud Tahmasian
- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Inst of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
- Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Sleep and Cognition, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty,, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Structural and functional organisation of the brain (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Medical Faculty, University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- Norwegian Centre for Mental Disorders Research, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Neurology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
- Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Site Rostock/Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- SA MRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Samsung Medical Center, SBRI (Samsung Biomedical Research Institute), Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
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- Univ Paris Saclay, NeuroSpin neuroimaging platform, Psychiatry Team, UNIACT Lab, CEA Saclay, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France
- DMU IMPACT de Psychiatrie et d'Addictologie, APHP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Mondor, Créteil, France
- Univ Paris Est Créteil, INSERM U 955, IMRB Team 15 « Translational Neuropsychiatry », Foundation FondaMental, Créteil, France
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Imaging Genetics Center, Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA
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- Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Laboratory of Neuro Imaging at USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychology, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
- Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Healthy Brain Aging and Sleep Center, Department of Psychiatry, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY, USA
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- Psychiatry & Clinical Psychobiology, Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS Scientific Institute Ospedale San Raffaele, Milano, Italy
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milano, Italy
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- Mary Mackillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- Sleep and Brain Plasticity Centre, Department of Neuroimaging, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King’s College London, London, UK
- Sleep Disorders Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
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- Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, AMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia
- School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic., Australia
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- Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic., Australia
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, Vic., Australia
- School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, Vic., Australia
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- Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok, Singapore
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- Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center - University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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- SA MRC Unit on Risk & Resilience in Mental Disorders, Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience Institute, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychology, Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany
- Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty,, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Otto Hahn Group Cognitive Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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- Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN), an Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Department of Integrative Neurophysiology, Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Amsterdam Neuroscience, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Vrije Universiteit, Psychiatry, Amsterdam Neuroscience, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- GIGA-Institute, Cyclotron Research Center/In Vivo Imaging, Sleep and Chronobiology Lab, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Institute for Community Medicine, Department SHIP/Clinical Epidemiological Research, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
- German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Greifswald, Germany
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- Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Sleep and Circadian Research, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Inst of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- K.G Jebsen Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Centre for Advanced Imaging, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld, Australia
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- NORMENT, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital, Inst of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Institute of Medical Science and Technology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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Rosenfeld DL, Balcetis E, Bastian B, Berkman ET, Bosson JK, Brannon TN, Burrow AL, Cameron CD, Chen S, Cook JE, Crandall C, Davidai S, Dhont K, Eastwick PW, Gaither SE, Gangestad SW, Gilovich T, Gray K, Haines EL, Haselton MG, Haslam N, Hodson G, Hogg MA, Hornsey MJ, Huo YJ, Joel S, Kachanoff FJ, Kraft-Todd G, Leary MR, Ledgerwood A, Lee RT, Loughnan S, MacInnis CC, Mann T, Murray DR, Parkinson C, Pérez EO, Pyszczynski T, Ratner K, Rothgerber H, Rounds JD, Schaller M, Silver RC, Spellman BA, Strohminger N, Swim JK, Thoemmes F, Urganci B, Vandello JA, Volz S, Zayas V, Tomiyama AJ. Psychological Science in the Wake of COVID-19: Social, Methodological, and Metascientific Considerations. Perspect Psychol Sci 2021; 17:311-333. [PMID: 34597198 DOI: 10.1177/1745691621999374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has extensively changed the state of psychological science from what research questions psychologists can ask to which methodologies psychologists can use to investigate them. In this article, we offer a perspective on how to optimize new research in the pandemic's wake. Because this pandemic is inherently a social phenomenon-an event that hinges on human-to-human contact-we focus on socially relevant subfields of psychology. We highlight specific psychological phenomena that have likely shifted as a result of the pandemic and discuss theoretical, methodological, and practical considerations of conducting research on these phenomena. After this discussion, we evaluate metascientific issues that have been amplified by the pandemic. We aim to demonstrate how theoretically grounded views on the COVID-19 pandemic can help make psychological science stronger-not weaker-in its wake.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
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- Department of Psychology, University of Oregon.,Center for Translational Neuroscience, University of Oregon
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University.,Rock Ethics Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.,Department of Communication, University of California, Los Angeles.,Institute for Society and Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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- Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University
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- Department of Psychology, Cornell University
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- School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
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- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.,Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
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- Department of Psychology, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
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- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia
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- Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine.,Department of Medicine, University of California, Irvine.,Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine
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- Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.,Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
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- Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University
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- Department of Human Development, Cornell University.,Department of Psychology, Cornell University
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- Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
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Moshontz H, Campbell L, Ebersole CR, IJzerman H, Urry HL, Forscher PS, Grahe JE, McCarthy RJ, Musser ED, Antfolk J, Castille CM, Evans TR, Fiedler S, Flake JK, Forero DA, Janssen SMJ, Keene JR, Protzko J, Aczel B, Solas SÁ, Ansari D, Awlia D, Baskin E, Batres C, Borras-Guevara ML, Brick C, Chandel P, Chatard A, Chopik WJ, Clarance D, Coles NA, Corker KS, Dixson BJW, Dranseika V, Dunham Y, Fox NW, Gardiner G, Garrison SM, Gill T, Hahn AC, Jaeger B, Kačmár P, Kaminski G, Kanske P, Kekecs Z, Kline M, Koehn MA, Kujur P, Levitan CA, Miller JK, Okan C, Olsen J, Oviedo-Trespalacios O, Özdoğru AA, Pande B, Parganiha A, Parveen N, Pfuhl G, Pradhan S, Ropovik I, Rule NO, Saunders B, Schei V, Schmidt K, Singh MM, Sirota M, Steltenpohl CN, Stieger S, Storage D, Sullivan GB, Szabelska A, Tamnes CK, Vadillo MA, Valentova JV, Vanpaemel W, Varella MAC, Vergauwe E, Verschoor M, Vianello M, Voracek M, Williams GP, Wilson JP, Zickfeld JH, Arnal JD, Aydin B, Chen SC, DeBruine LM, Fernandez AM, Horstmann KT, Isager PM, Jones B, Kapucu A, Lin H, Mensink MC, Navarrete G, Silan MA, Chartier CR. The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network. Adv Methods Pract Psychol Sci 2018; 1:501-515. [PMID: 31886452 PMCID: PMC6934079 DOI: 10.1177/2515245918797607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
Abstract
Concerns have been growing about the veracity of psychological research. Many findings in psychological science are based on studies with insufficient statistical power and nonrepresentative samples, or may otherwise be limited to specific, ungeneralizable settings or populations. Crowdsourced research, a type of large-scale collaboration in which one or more research projects are conducted across multiple lab sites, offers a pragmatic solution to these and other current methodological challenges. The Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA) is a distributed network of laboratories designed to enable and support crowdsourced research projects. These projects can focus on novel research questions, or attempt to replicate prior research, in large, diverse samples. The PSA's mission is to accelerate the accumulation of reliable and generalizable evidence in psychological science. Here, we describe the background, structure, principles, procedures, benefits, and challenges of the PSA. In contrast to other crowdsourced research networks, the PSA is ongoing (as opposed to time-limited), efficient (in terms of re-using structures and principles for different projects), decentralized, diverse (in terms of participants and researchers), and inclusive (of proposals, contributions, and other relevant input from anyone inside or outside of the network). The PSA and other approaches to crowdsourced psychological science will advance our understanding of mental processes and behaviors by enabling rigorous research and systematically examining its generalizability.
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