New targets for rapid antidepressant action

R Machado-Vieira, ID Henter, CA Zarate Jr - Progress in neurobiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Current therapeutic options for major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD)
are associated with a lag of onset that can prolong distress and impairment for patients, and …

Therapeutic modulation of glutamate receptors in major depressive disorder

BA Jaso, MJ Niciu, ND Iadarola… - Current …, 2017 - ingentaconnect.com
Current pharmacotherapies for major depressive disorder (MDD) have a distinct lag of onset
that can prolong distress and impairment for patients, and realworld effectiveness trials …

A brief history of the development of antidepressant drugs: from monoamines to glutamate.

TM Hillhouse, JH Porter - Experimental and clinical …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic, recurring, and debilitating mental illness that
is the most common mood disorder in the United States. It has been almost 50 years since …

Ketamine and other N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists in the treatment of depression: a perspective review

ND Iadarola, MJ Niciu, EM Richards… - … advances in chronic …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Current pharmacotherapies for major depressive disorder (MDD) and bipolar depression
(BDep) have a distinct lag of onset that can generate great distress and impairment in …

Targeting of NMDA receptors in the treatment of major depression

YH Dang, XC Ma, JC Zhang, Q Ren… - Current …, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, recurrent mental illness that affects millions
of people worldwide. Accumulating evidence suggests that the N-methyl-D-aspartate …

An update on NMDA antagonists in depression

B Pochwat, G Nowak, B Szewczyk - Expert review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Current antidepressant therapies exhibit low therapeutic efficiency and delayed
onset of antidepressant action. Thus, the search for better acting agents is a continuous …

NMDA antagonists under investigation for the treatment of major depressive disorder

B Pochwat, A Pałucha-Poniewiera… - Expert opinion on …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Mood disorders, including depression, are becoming increasingly prevalent in
the developed world. Furthermore, treatment of depression therapeutics, mainly influencing …

The role of glutamate in mood disorders: results from the ketamine in major depression study and the presumed cellular mechanism underlying its antidepressant …

S Maeng, CA Zarate Jr - Current psychiatry reports, 2007 - Springer
In this article, we first review a study showing that the N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor
antagonist ketamine leads to rapid, robust, and relatively sustained antidepressant effects in …

The role of NMDA receptor in neurobiology and treatment of major depressive disorder: evidence from translational research

M Amidfar, M Woelfer, GZ Reus, J Quevedo… - Progress in Neuro …, 2019 - Elsevier
There is accumulating evidence demonstrating that dysfunction of glutamatergic
neurotransmission, particularly via N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, is involved in …

Glutamate-based antidepressants: preclinical psychopharmacology

A Pilc, JM Wierońska, P Skolnick - Biological psychiatry, 2013 - Elsevier
Over the past 20 years, converging lines of evidence have both linked glutamatergic
dysfunction to the pathophysiology of depression and demonstrated that the glutamatergic …