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# Group analyses with Lead-DBS

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Lead group is best documented by [this paper](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.14.904615v1) and the accompanying walkthrough tutorial found on [OSF](https://osf.io/kj456/).

An older resource are [these walkthrough slides](https://www.lead-dbs.org/docs/tutorials/group_analyses_horn.pdf)
{% endhint %}

Once the coregistration, normalization and reconstruction steps have been performed for a group of patients, you can load these in the group GUI, which you can start by entering

`lead group`

into the MATLAB command line.

From here, several options for visualization and analysis of clinical/multimodal data are available. The rest of this section explains how to [Setup Analysis](/leaddbs/lead-group/setup-analysis.md), how to create [Group Visualization](/leaddbs/lead-group/group-visualization.md)s and how to [Calculate VTA and Stats](/leaddbs/lead-group/calculate-vta-and-stats.md).

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Before starting, please make sure to check accuracy of both normalization and reconstruction for each patient you analyse.
{% endhint %}

*Lead-Group GUI*

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