Animal models of major depression: drawbacks and challenges

B Planchez, A Surget, C Belzung - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2019 - Springer
Major depression is a leading contributor to the global burden of disease. This situation is
mainly related to the chronicity and/or recurrence of the disorder, and to poor response to …

Dopamine system dysregulation in major depressive disorders

P Belujon, AA Grace - International Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Anhedonia is considered a core feature of major depressive disorder, and the dopamine
system plays a pivotal role in the hedonic deficits described in this disorder. Dopaminergic …

[HTML][HTML] The chronic mild stress (CMS) model of depression: History, evaluation and usage

P Willner - Neurobiology of stress, 2017 - Elsevier
Now 30 years old, the chronic mild stress (CMS) model of depression has been used in>
1300 published studies, with a year-on-year increase rising to> 200 papers in 2015. Data …

Burnout–depression overlap: A review

R Bianchi, IS Schonfeld, E Laurent - Clinical psychology review, 2015 - Elsevier
Whether burnout is a form of depression or a distinct phenomenon is an object of
controversy. The aim of the present article was to provide an up-to-date review of the …

Microglial activation mediates chronic mild stress-induced depressive-and anxiety-like behavior in adult rats

YL Wang, QQ Han, WQ Gong, DH Pan… - Journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Depression is a heterogeneous disorder, with the exact neuronal mechanisms
causing the disease yet to be discovered. Recent work suggests it is accompanied by neuro …

Hypothalamus-habenula potentiation encodes chronic stress experience and drives depression onset

Z Zheng, C Guo, M Li, L Yang, P Liu, X Zhang, Y Liu… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Chronic stress is a major risk factor for depression onset. However, it remains unclear how
repeated stress sculpts neural circuits and finally elicits depression. Given the essential role …

The brain reward circuitry in mood disorders

SJ Russo, EJ Nestler - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
Mood disorders are common and debilitating conditions characterized in part by profound
deficits in reward-related behavioural domains. A recent literature has identified important …

Selecting an appropriate animal model of depression

Y Hao, H Ge, M Sun, Y Gao - International journal of molecular sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
Depression has become one of the most severe psychiatric disorders and endangers the
health of living beings all over the world. In order to explore the molecular mechanism that …

Voluntary exercise boosts striatal dopamine release: evidence for the necessary and sufficient role of BDNF

G Bastioli, JC Arnold, M Mancini, AC Mar… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Physical exercise improves motor performance in individuals with Parkinson9s disease and
elevates mood in those with depression. Although underlying factors have not been …

Dendritic spines in depression: what we learned from animal models

H Qiao, MX Li, C Xu, HB Chen, SC An… - Neural plasticity, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Depression, a severe psychiatric disorder, has been studied for decades, but the underlying
mechanisms still remain largely unknown. Depression is closely associated with alterations …