Bacillus licheniformis prevents and reduces anxiety-like and depression-like behaviours

S Feng, C Meng, Y Liu, Y Yi, A Liang, Y Zhang… - Applied Microbiology …, 2023 - Springer
As common mental disorders, depression and anxiety impact people all around the world.
Recent studies have found that the gut microbiome plays an important role in mental health …

M1 acetylcholine receptors in somatostatin interneurons contribute to GABAergic and glutamatergic plasticity in the mPFC and antidepressant-like responses

MV Fogaça, M Wu, C Li, XY Li, RS Duman… - …, 2023 - nature.com
Alterations in glutamatergic and GABAergic function in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC)
are prevalent in individuals with major depressive disorder, resulting in impaired synaptic …

Excitatory synaptic transmission in ischemic stroke: a new outlet for classical neuroprotective strategies

F Wang, X Xie, X Xing, X Sun - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Stroke is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the world, of which ischemia
accounts for the majority. There is growing evidence of changes in synaptic connections and …

Astrocyte dysfunction drives abnormal resting-state functional connectivity in depression

J Liu, JW Mo, X Wang, Z An, S Zhang, CY Zhang… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a devastating mental disorder that affects up to 17% of
the population worldwide. Although brain-wide network-level abnormalities in MDD patients …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of stress on excitatory and inhibitory markers of adolescent cognitive critical period plasticity

MI Perica, B Luna - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Adolescence is a time of significant neurocognitive development. Prolonged maturation of
prefrontal cortex (PFC) through adolescence has been found to support improvements in …

Sex shapes cell-type-specific transcriptional signatures of stress exposure in the mouse hypothalamus

E Brivio, A Kos, AF Ulivi, S Karamihalev, A Ressle… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Stress-related psychiatric disorders and the stress system show prominent differences
between males and females, as well as strongly divergent transcriptional changes. Despite …

[HTML][HTML] Preclinical perspectives on the mechanisms underlying the therapeutic actions of psilocybin in psychiatric disorders

AB Wulff, CD Nichols, SM Thompson - Neuropharmacology, 2023 - Elsevier
Psychedelic compounds have shown extraordinary potential in treating a wide range of
neuropsychiatric disorders. Psilocybin, for example, has now been shown in several clinical …

Dysregulation of brain dopamine systems in major depressive disorder

NC Delva, GD Stanwood - Experimental Biology and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD or depression) is a debilitating neuropsychiatric syndrome
with genetic, epigenetic, and environmental contributions. Depression is one of the largest …

Mitochondrial gene signature in the prefrontal cortex for differential susceptibility to chronic stress

M Weger, D Alpern, A Cherix, S Ghosal, J Grosse… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction was highlighted as a crucial vulnerability factor for the
development of depression. However, systemic studies assessing stress-induced changes …

[HTML][HTML] Biological markers of sex-based differences in major depressive disorder and in antidepressant response

RC Silva, C Pisanu, E Maffioletti, V Menesello… - European …, 2023 - Elsevier
Major depressive disorder (MDD) presents different clinical features in women and men,
with women being more affected and responding differently to antidepressant treatment …