Major depressive disorder

W Marx, BWJH Penninx, M Solmi… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is characterized by persistent depressed mood, loss of
interest or pleasure in previously enjoyable activities, recurrent thoughts of death, and …

Major depressive disorder: hypothesis, mechanism, prevention and treatment

L Cui, S Li, S Wang, X Wu, Y Liu, W Yu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Worldwide, the incidence of major depressive disorder (MDD) is increasing annually,
resulting in greater economic and social burdens. Moreover, the pathological mechanisms …

Chronic stress, neuroinflammation, and depression: an overview of pathophysiological mechanisms and emerging anti-inflammatories

S Hassamal - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In a subset of patients, chronic exposure to stress is an etiological risk factor for
neuroinflammation and depression. Neuroinflammation affects up to 27% of patients with …

α7 Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor: a key receptor in the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway exerting an antidepressant effect

H Liu, X Zhang, P Shi, J Yuan, Q Jia, C Pi… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Depression is a common mental illness, which is related to monoamine neurotransmitters
and the dysfunction of the cholinergic, immune, glutamatergic, and neuroendocrine systems …

Understanding the role of oxidative stress, neuroinflammation and abnormal myelination in excessive aggression associated with depression: recent input from …

A Gorlova, E Svirin, D Pavlov, R Cespuglio… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Aggression and deficient cognitive control problems are widespread in psychiatric disorders,
including major depressive disorder (MDD). These abnormalities are known to contribute …

Melanin-like polydopamine nanoparticles mediating anti-inflammatory and rescuing synaptic loss for inflammatory depression therapy

T Zhu, H Wang, H Gu, L Ju, X Wu, W Pan… - Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Inflammatory depression is closely related to neuroinflammation. However, current anti-
inflammatory drugs have low permeability to cross blood–brain barrier with difficulties …

Role of inflammatory mechanisms in major depressive disorder: from etiology to potential pharmacological targets

BR Kouba, L de Araujo Borba, P Borges de Souza… - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
The involvement of central and peripheral inflammation in the pathogenesis and prognosis
of major depressive disorder (MDD) has been demonstrated. The increase of pro …

Depression pathophysiology: Astrocyte mitochondrial melatonergic pathway as crucial hub

G Anderson - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is widely accepted as having a heterogenous
pathophysiology involving a complex mixture of systemic and CNS processes. A …

Extracellular matrix abnormalities in the hippocampus of subjects with substance use disorder

J Valeri, C Stiplosek, SM O'Donovan, D Sinclair… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
Contextual triggers are significant factors contributing to relapse in substance use disorders
(SUD). Emerging evidence points to a critical role of extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules as …

Negative psychological and physiological effects of social networking site use: The example of Facebook

FJ Stangl, R Riedl, R Kiemeswenger… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Social networking sites (SNS), with Facebook as a prominent example, have become an
integral part of our daily lives and more than four billion people worldwide use SNS …