Sex differences in anxiety and depression: circuits and mechanisms

DA Bangasser, A Cuarenta - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Epidemiological sex differences in anxiety disorders and major depression are well
characterized. Yet the circuits and mechanisms that contribute to these differences are …

Prefrontal cortex and depression

DA Pizzagalli, AC Roberts - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) has emerged as one of the regions most consistently impaired in
major depressive disorder (MDD). Although functional and structural PFC abnormalities …

Microglial ERK-NRBP1-CREB-BDNF signaling in sustained antidepressant actions of (R)-ketamine

W Yao, Q Cao, S Luo, L He, C Yang, J Chen, Q Qi… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract (R, S)-ketamine elicits rapid-acting and sustained antidepressant actions in
treatment-resistant patients with depression.(R)-ketamine produces longer-lasting …

Reproducibility of animal research in light of biological variation

B Voelkl, NS Altman, A Forsman… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Context-dependent biological variation presents a unique challenge to the reproducibility of
results in experimental animal research, because organisms' responses to experimental …

Future of digital assays to resolve clinical heterogeneity of single extracellular vesicles

RTT Morales, J Ko - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are complex lipid membrane vehicles with variable expressions
of molecular cargo, composed of diverse subpopulations that participate in the intercellular …

Animal models of depression: what can they teach us about the human disease?

M Becker, A Pinhasov, A Ornoy - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Depression is apparently the most common psychiatric disease among the mood disorders
affecting about 10% of the adult population. The etiology and pathogenesis of depression …

Sucrose preference test as a measure of anhedonic behavior in a chronic unpredictable mild stress model of depression: outstanding issues

DD Markov - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite numerous studies on the neurobiology of depression, the etiological and
pathophysiological mechanisms of this disorder remain poorly understood. A large number …

You've got male: Sex and the microbiota-gut-brain axis across the lifespan

M Jaggar, K Rea, S Spichak, TG Dinan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sex is a critical factor in the diagnosis and development of a number of mental health
disorders including autism, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, Parkinson's disease …

Recovering from depression with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS): a systematic review and meta-analysis of preclinical studies

L De Risio, M Borgi, M Pettorruso, A Miuli… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has gained growing interest for the
treatment of major depression (MDD) and treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Most …

Chronic stress-induced depression requires the recruitment of peripheral Th17 cells into the brain

Z Peng, S Peng, K Lin, B Zhao, L Wei, Q Tuo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background Depression is a recurrent and devastating mental disease that is highly
prevalent worldwide. Prolonged exposure to stressful events or a stressful environment is …