Burning down the house: reinventing drug discovery in psychiatry for the development of targeted therapies

AH Miller, CL Raison - Molecular Psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Despite advances in neuroscience, limited progress has been made in developing new and
better medications for psychiatric disorders. Available treatments in psychiatry rely on a few …

The role of damage associated molecular pattern molecules (DAMPs) and permeability of the blood-brain barrier in depression and neuroinflammation

MF Serna-Rodríguez, S Bernal-Vega… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Depression is a heterogeneous mental disorder characterized by feelings of sadness and
loss of interest that render the subject unable to handle basic daily activities such as …

Association between frailty and depression: A bidirectional Mendelian randomization study

MG Deng, F Liu, Y Liang, K Wang, JQ Nie, J Liu - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
Frailty and depression were linked in observational studies, but the causality remains
ambiguous. We intended to explore it using Mendelian randomization (MR). We obtained …

Inflammation and depression in young people: a systematic review and proposed inflammatory pathways

YJ Toenders, L Laskaris, CG Davey, M Berk… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Depression onset peaks during adolescence and young adulthood. Current treatments are
only moderately effective, driving the search for novel pathophysiological mechanisms …

Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models

CC Boyle, JE Bower, NI Eisenberger… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Anhedonia, as evidenced by impaired pleasurable response to reward, reduced reward
motivation, and/or deficits in reward-related learning, is a common feature of depression …

Understanding why post-stroke depression may be the norm rather than the exception: the anatomical and neuroinflammatory correlates of post-stroke depression

T Wijeratne, C Sales - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
Ischemic Stroke precedes depression. Post-stroke depression (PSD) is a major driver for
poor recovery, negative quality of life, poor rehabilitation outcomes and poor functional …

Emotional states predict cellular immune system activity under conditions of life as it is lived: A multivariate time-series analysis approach

L Seizer, D Fuchs, HR Bliem, C Schubert - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The relationship between emotional states and immune system activity is characterized by
bidirectional influences; however, limited information is available regarding the temporal …

Is depression the missing link between inflammatory mediators and cancer?

B Polityńska, O Pokorska, AM Wojtukiewicz… - Pharmacology & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Patients with cancer are at greater risk of developing depression in comparison to the
general population and this is associated with serious adverse effects, such as poorer …

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for stroke rehabilitation: insights into the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neuroinflammation

R Sheng, C Chen, H Chen, P Yu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide, with most survivors reporting
dysfunctions of motor, sensation, deglutition, cognition, emotion, and speech, etc. Repetitive …

[HTML][HTML] Excess body weight and specific types of depressive symptoms: Is there a mediating role of systemic low-grade inflammation?

K Chu, D Cadar, E Iob, P Frank - Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2023 - Elsevier
Objectives Obesity is associated with an increased risk of depression. Systemic low-grade
inflammation, a plausible consequence of obesity, has also been linked to depression …