Molecular pathways of major depressive disorder converge on the synapse

GR Fries, VA Saldana, J Finnstein, T Rein - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a psychiatric disease of still poorly understood
molecular etiology. Extensive studies at different molecular levels point to a high complexity …

Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms

DA Bangasser, A Cuarenta - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Epidemiological sex differences in anxiety disorders and major depression are well
characterized. Yet the circuits and mechanisms that contribute to these differences are …

[HTML][HTML] The anatomy of pain and suffering in the brain and its clinical implications

D De Ridder, D Adhia, S Vanneste - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential
tissue damage. Chronic pain, with a prevalence of 20–30% is the major cause of human …

The stressed synapse 2.0: pathophysiological mechanisms in stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders

G Sanacora, Z Yan, M Popoli - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Stress is a primary risk factor for several neuropsychiatric disorders. Evidence from
preclinical models and clinical studies of depression have revealed an array of structural …

Altered connectivity in depression: GABA and glutamate neurotransmitter deficits and reversal by novel treatments

RS Duman, G Sanacora, JH Krystal - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology and treatment of depression and stress-
related disorders remain unclear, but studies in depressed patients and rodent models are …

Sex differences in depression: Insights from clinical and preclinical studies

RS Eid, AR Gobinath, LAM Galea - Progress in neurobiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Depression represents a global mental health concern, and disproportionally affects women
as they are twice more likely to be diagnosed than men. In this review, we provide a …

Oligodendrocyte lineage cells and depression

B Zhou, Z Zhu, BR Ransom, X Tong - Molecular psychiatry, 2021 - nature.com
Depression is a common mental illness, affecting more than 300 million people worldwide.
Decades of investigation have yielded symptomatic therapies for this disabling condition but …

Transcriptomic organization of the human brain in post-traumatic stress disorder

MJ Girgenti, J Wang, D Ji, DA Cruz, MB Stein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite extensive study of the neurobiological correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD), little is known about its molecular determinants. Here, differential gene expression …

Vascular and blood-brain barrier-related changes underlie stress responses and resilience in female mice and depression in human tissue

L Dion-Albert, A Cadoret, E Doney… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prevalence, symptoms, and treatment of depression suggest that major depressive
disorders (MDD) present sex differences. Social stress-induced neurovascular pathology is …

Sex differences and the neurobiology of affective disorders

DR Rubinow, PJ Schmidt - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2019 - nature.com
Observations of the disproportionate incidence of depression in women compared with men
have long preceded the recent explosion of interest in sex differences. Nonetheless, the …