The genetic basis of major depressive disorder

J Flint - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
The genetic dissection of major depressive disorder (MDD) ranks as one of the success
stories of psychiatric genetics, with genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identifying …

The genetic basis of major depression

KM Kendall, E Van Assche, TFM Andlauer… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, debilitating, phenotypically heterogeneous
disorder with heritability ranges from 30% to 50%. Compared to other psychiatric disorders …

Evidence for embracing normative modeling

S Rutherford, P Barkema, IF Tso, C Sripada… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
In this work, we expand the normative model repository introduced in Rutherford et al.,
2022a to include normative models charting lifespan trajectories of structural surface area …

Studying mental health problems as systems, not syndromes

EI Fried - Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite decades of clinical, sociopolitical, and research efforts, progress in understanding
and treating mental health problems remains disappointing. I discuss two barriers that have …

Computational psychiatry needs time and context

PF Hitchcock, EI Fried, MJ Frank - Annual review of psychology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Why has computational psychiatry yet to influence routine clinical practice? One reason may
be that it has neglected context and temporal dynamics in the models of certain mental …

Characterizing heterogeneity in neuroimaging, cognition, clinical symptoms, and genetics among patients with late-life depression

J Wen, CHY Fu, D Tosun, Y Veturi, Z Yang… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Late-life depression (LLD) is characterized by considerable heterogeneity in
clinical manifestation. Unraveling such heterogeneity might aid in elucidating etiological …

Ten challenges for clinical translation in psychiatric genetics

EM Derks, JG Thorp, ZF Gerring - Nature Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of robust genetic associations
underlying psychiatric disorders and provided important biological insights into disease …

Genetic heterogeneity and subtypes of major depression

TD Nguyen, A Harder, Y Xiong, K Kowalec… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Major depression (MD) is a heterogeneous disorder; however, the extent to which genetic
factors distinguish MD patient subgroups (genetic heterogeneity) remains uncertain. This …

Genetically proxied diurnal preference, sleep timing, and risk of major depressive disorder

I Daghlas, JM Lane, R Saxena, C Vetter - JAMA psychiatry, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Morning diurnal preference is associated with reduced risk of major depressive
disorder (MDD); however, causality in this association is uncertain. Objective To examine …

The amygdala and depression: A sober reconsideration

SE Grogans, AS Fox… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Depressive disorders are a leading cause of global disability, afflicting approximately 280
million individuals worldwide each year (1). In the United States, more than one in five …