DNA methylation-based predictors of health: applications and statistical considerations

PD Yousefi, M Suderman, R Langdon… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
DNA methylation data have become a valuable source of information for biomarker
development, because, unlike static genetic risk estimates, DNA methylation varies …

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 …

Chronic stress-induced depression and anxiety priming modulated by gut-brain-axis immunity

S Westfall, F Caracci, M Estill, T Frolinger… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chronic stress manifests as depressive-and anxiety-like behavior while recurrent stress
elicits disproportionate behavioral impairments linked to stress-induced immunological …

Single-cell mass cytometry of microglia in major depressive disorder reveals a non-inflammatory phenotype with increased homeostatic marker expression

C Böttcher, C Fernández-Zapata, GJL Snijders… - Translational …, 2020 - nature.com
Stress-induced disturbances of brain homeostasis and neuroinflammation have been
implicated in the pathophysiology of mood disorders. In major depressive disorder (MDD) …

An integrative study of five biological clocks in somatic and mental health

R Jansen, LKM Han, JE Verhoeven, KA Aberg… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Biological clocks have been developed at different molecular levels and were found to be
more advanced in the presence of somatic illness and mental disorders. However, it is …

Epigenetic prediction of major depressive disorder

MC Barbu, X Shen, RM Walker, DM Howard… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Variation in DNA methylation (DNAm) is associated with lifestyle factors such as smoking
and body mass index (BMI) but there has been little research exploring its ability to identify …

Epigenetic aberrations in major psychiatric diseases related to diet and gut microbiome alterations

S Nohesara, HM Abdolmaleky, S Thiagalingam - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nutrition and metabolism modify epigenetic signatures like histone acetylation and DNA
methylation. Histone acetylation and DNA methylation in the central nervous system (CNS) …

Epigenetics applied to child and adolescent mental health: Progress, challenges and opportunities

CAM Cecil, A Neumann, E Walton - JCPP advances, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Epigenetic processes are fast emerging as a promising molecular system in the
search for both biomarkers and mechanisms underlying human health and disease risk …

The separation distress hypothesis of depression–an update and systematic review

DF Watt - Neuropsychoanalysis, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The separation distress hypothesis of depression, formulated in 2009, offered an affective
neuroscience perspective on our most common and costly mental health condition, as an …

DNA methylation as a mediator in the association between prenatal maternal stress and child mental health outcomes: Current state of knowledge

N Azar, L Booij - Journal of affective disorders, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Prenatal maternal stress is increasingly recognized as a risk factor for offspring
mental health challenges. DNA methylation may be a mechanism, but few studies directly …