Major depressive disorder: advances in neuroscience research and translational applications

Z Li, M Ruan, J Chen, Y Fang - Neuroscience bulletin, 2021 - Springer
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also referred to as depression, is one of the most common
psychiatric disorders with a high economic burden. The etiology of depression is still not …

The future of rodent models in depression research

A Gururajan, A Reif, JF Cryan, DA Slattery - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Currently, over 300 million people worldwide have depression, and the socioeconomic
burden of this debilitating disorder is anticipated to increase markedly over the coming …

Molecular networks in Network Medicine: Development and applications

EK Silverman, HHHW Schmidt… - … Systems Biology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Network Medicine applies network science approaches to investigate disease
pathogenesis. Many different analytical methods have been used to infer relevant molecular …

The genetic basis of major depression

KM Kendall, E Van Assche, TFM Andlauer… - Psychological …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common, debilitating, phenotypically heterogeneous
disorder with heritability ranges from 30% to 50%. Compared to other psychiatric disorders …

Dissecting diagnostic heterogeneity in depression by integrating neuroimaging and genetics

AM Buch, C Liston - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2021 - nature.com
Depression is a heterogeneous and etiologically complex psychiatric syndrome, not a
unitary disease entity, encompassing a broad spectrum of psychopathology arising from …

The state of our understanding of the pathophysiology and optimal treatment of depression: glass half full or half empty?

CB Nemeroff - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2020 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Major depressive disorder is a remarkably common and often severe psychiatric disorder
associated with high levels of morbidity and mortality. Patients with major depression are …

Sex differences in the genetic architecture of depression

HJ Kang, Y Park, KH Yoo, KT Kim, ES Kim, JW Kim… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The prevalence and clinical characteristics of depressive disorders differ between women
and men; however, the genetic contribution to sex differences in depressive disorders has …

The rise and fall of MRI studies in major depressive disorder

C Zhuo, G Li, X Lin, D Jiang, Y Xu, H Tian… - Translational …, 2019 - nature.com
Structural and functional brain alterations are common in patients with major depressive
disorder (MDD). In this review, we assessed the recent literature (1995–2018) on the …

Causes and consequences of diagnostic heterogeneity in depression: paths to discovering novel biological depression subtypes

CJ Lynch, FM Gunning, C Liston - Biological psychiatry, 2020 - Elsevier
Depression is a highly heterogeneous syndrome that bears only modest correlations with its
biological substrates, motivating a renewed interest in rethinking our approach to …

[HTML][HTML] Depression and interleukin-6 signaling: A Mendelian Randomization study

KM Kelly, JA Smith, B Mezuk - Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 2021 - Elsevier
Background A large body of research has reported associations between depression and
elevated interleukin-6 (IL-6), a cytokine with several roles including pro-inflammatory …