[HTML][HTML] Novel pharmacological targets in drug development for the treatment of anxiety and anxiety-related disorders

SB Sartori, N Singewald - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2019 - Elsevier
Current medication for anxiety disorders is suboptimal in terms of efficiency and tolerability,
highlighting the need for improved drug treatments. In this review an overview of drugs …

Animal models of depression: what can they teach us about the human disease?

M Becker, A Pinhasov, A Ornoy - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Depression is apparently the most common psychiatric disease among the mood disorders
affecting about 10% of the adult population. The etiology and pathogenesis of depression …

Gut microbiota and psychiatric disorders: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study

JJ Ni, Q Xu, SS Yan, BX Han, H Zhang, XT Wei… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Evidence supports the observational associations of gut microbiota with a variety of
psychiatric disorders, but the causal nature of such associations remains obscure. Aiming to …

Genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis

AD Grotzinger, TT Mallard, WA Akingbuwa, HF Ip… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
We interrogate the joint genetic architecture of 11 major psychiatric disorders at
biobehavioral, functional genomic and molecular genetic levels of analysis. We identify four …

Reproducible genetic risk loci for anxiety: results from∼ 200,000 participants in the Million Veteran Program

DF Levey, J Gelernter, R Polimanti… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Objective: Anxiety disorders are common and often disabling. The goal of this study was to
examine the genetic architecture of anxiety disorders and anxiety symptoms, which are also …

Prescription opioid use and risk for major depressive disorder and anxiety and stress-related disorders: a multivariable mendelian randomization analysis

DB Rosoff, GD Smith, FW Lohoff - JAMA psychiatry, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Growing evidence suggests that prescription opioid use affects depression and
anxiety disorders; however, observational studies are subject to confounding, making causal …

SUPERGNOVA: local genetic correlation analysis reveals heterogeneous etiologic sharing of complex traits

Y Zhang, Q Lu, Y Ye, K Huang, W Liu, Y Wu, X Zhong… - Genome biology, 2021 - Springer
Local genetic correlation quantifies the genetic similarity of complex traits in specific
genomic regions. However, accurate estimation of local genetic correlation remains …

Symptom-level modelling unravels the shared genetic architecture of anxiety and depression

JG Thorp, AI Campos, AD Grotzinger… - Nature human …, 2021 - nature.com
Depression and anxiety are highly prevalent and comorbid psychiatric traits that cause
considerable burden worldwide. Here we use factor analysis and genomic structural …

Long-term air pollution, genetic susceptibility, and the risk of depression and anxiety: a prospective study in the UK biobank cohort

X Gao, M Jiang, N Huang, X Guo… - Environmental Health …, 2023 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Depression and anxiety are two mental disorders that are often comorbid.
However, the associations of long-term air pollution exposure with depression and anxiety …

Integrative analyses highlight functional regulatory variants associated with neuropsychiatric diseases

MG Guo, DL Reynolds, CE Ang, Y Liu, Y Zhao… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Noncoding variants of presumed regulatory function contribute to the heritability of
neuropsychiatric disease. A total of 2,221 noncoding variants connected to risk for ten …