Depression and risk of developing dementia

AL Byers, K Yaffe - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2011 - nature.com
Depression is highly common throughout the life course and dementia is common in late life.
Depression has been linked with dementia, and growing evidence implies that the timing of …

Stress-and allostasis-induced brain plasticity

BS McEwen, PJ Gianaros - Annual review of medicine, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The brain is the key organ of stress processes. It determines what individuals will experience
as stressful, it orchestrates how individuals will cope with stressful experiences, and it …

The GABAergic deficit hypothesis of major depressive disorder

B Luscher, Q Shen, N Sahir - Molecular psychiatry, 2011 - nature.com
Increasing evidence points to an association between major depressive disorders (MDDs)
and diverse types of GABAergic deficits. In this review, we summarize clinical and preclinical …

Animal models of depression: molecular perspectives

V Krishnan, EJ Nestler - Molecular and functional models in …, 2011 - Springer
Much of the current understanding about the pathogenesis of altered mood, impaired
concentration and neurovegetative symptoms in major depression has come from animal …

Synaptic potentiation onto habenula neurons in the learned helplessness model of depression

B Li, J Piriz, M Mirrione, CH Chung, CD Proulx… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The cellular basis of depressive disorders is poorly understood. Recent studies in monkeys
indicate that neurons in the lateral habenula (LHb), a nucleus that mediates communication …

Functional biomarkers of depression: diagnosis, treatment, and pathophysiology

HD Schmidt, RC Shelton, RS Duman - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2011 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a heterogeneous illness for which there are currently no
effective methods to objectively assess severity, endophenotypes, or response to treatment …

The role of BDNF in depression on the basis of its location in the neural circuitry

H Yu, Z Chen - Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, 2011 - nature.com
Depression is one of the most prevalent and life-threatening forms of mental illnesses and
the neural circuitry underlying depression remains incompletely understood. Most attention …

Air pollution impairs cognition, provokes depressive-like behaviors and alters hippocampal cytokine expression and morphology

LK Fonken, X Xu, ZM Weil, G Chen, Q Sun… - Molecular …, 2011 - nature.com
Particulate matter air pollution is a pervasive global risk factor implicated in the genesis of
pulmonary and cardiovascular disease. Although the effects of prolonged exposure to air …

The hippocampus, neurotrophic factors and depression: possible implications for the pharmacotherapy of depression

G Masi, P Brovedani - CNS drugs, 2011 - Springer
Depression is a prevalent, highly debilitating mental disorder affecting up to 15% of the
population at least once in their lifetime, with huge costs for society. Neurobiological …

A time-dependent history of mood disorders in a murine model of neuropathic pain

I Yalcin, Y Bohren, E Waltisperger, D Sage-Ciocca… - Biological …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Chronic pain is clinically associated with the development of affective
disorders. However, studies in animal models of neuropathic pain are contradictory and the …