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 …

[HTML][HTML] Early life adversity shapes neural circuit function during sensitive postnatal developmental periods

L Malave, MT van Dijk, C Anacker - Translational psychiatry, 2022 - nature.com
Early life adversity (ELA) is a major risk factor for mental illness, but the neurobiological
mechanisms by which ELA increases the risk for future psychopathology are still poorly …

Early life adversity shapes social subordination and cell type–specific transcriptomic patterning in the ventral hippocampus

A Kos, JP Lopez, J Bordes, C De Donno, J Dine… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Adverse events in early life can modulate the response to additional stressors later in life
and increase the risk of developing psychiatric disorders. The underlying molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional alterations in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens implicate neuroinflammation and synaptic remodeling in opioid use …

ML Seney, SM Kim, JR Glausier, MA Hildebrand… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Prevalence rates of opioid use disorder (OUD) have increased dramatically,
accompanied by a surge of overdose deaths. While opioid dependence has been …

[HTML][HTML] Stress-induced plasticity of a CRH/GABA projection disrupts reward behaviors in mice

MT Birnie, AK Short, GB de Carvalho… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Disrupted operations of the reward circuit underlie major emotional disorders, including
depression, which commonly arise following early life stress/adversity (ELA). However, how …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of early life stress on reward circuit function and regulation

JL Hanson, AV Williams, DA Bangasser… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Early life stress–including experience of child maltreatment, neglect, separation from or loss
of a parent, and other forms of adversity–increases lifetime risk of mood, anxiety, and …

[HTML][HTML] Multiomic profiling of the acute stress response in the mouse hippocampus

LM von Ziegler, A Floriou-Servou, R Waag… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The acute stress response mobilizes energy to meet situational demands and re-establish
homeostasis. However, the underlying molecular cascades are unclear. Here, we use a brief …

Long-term behavioral and cell-type-specific molecular effects of early life stress are mediated by H3K79me2 dynamics in medium spiny neurons

H Kronman, A Torres-Berrío, S Sidoli, O Issler… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Animals susceptible to chronic social defeat stress (CSDS) exhibit depression-related
behaviors, with aberrant transcription across several limbic brain regions, most notably in …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulation in major depression and other stress-related disorders: molecular mechanisms, clinical relevance and therapeutic potential

M Yuan, B Yang, G Rothschild, JJ Mann… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic, generally episodic and debilitating disease
that affects an estimated 300 million people worldwide, but its pathogenesis is poorly …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic insights into the neurobiology of anxiety

MK Koskinen, I Hovatta - Trends in Neurosciences, 2023 - cell.com
Anxiety and fear are evolutionarily conserved emotions that increase the likelihood of an
organism surviving threatening situations. Anxiety and vigilance states are regulated by …