New and emerging approaches to treat psychiatric disorders

KW Scangos, MW State, AH Miller, JT Baker… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Psychiatric disorders are highly prevalent, often devastating diseases that negatively impact
the lives of millions of people worldwide. Although their etiological and diagnostic …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammation-related functional and structural dysconnectivity as a pathway to psychopathology

DR Goldsmith, M Bekhbat, ND Mehta, JC Felger - Biological psychiatry, 2023 - Elsevier
Findings from numerous laboratories and across neuroimaging modalities have consistently
shown that exogenous administration of cytokines or inflammatory stimuli that induce …

[HTML][HTML] How inflammation affects the brain in depression: a review of functional and structural MRI studies

KM Han, BJ Ham - Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea), 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This narrative review discusses how peripheral and central inflammation processes affect
brain function and structure in depression, and reports on recent peripheral inflammatory …

[HTML][HTML] Early social adversity, altered brain functional connectivity, and mental health

NE Holz, O Berhe, S Sacu, E Schwarz, J Tesarz… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Early adverse environmental exposures during brain development are widespread risk
factors for the onset of severe mental disorders and strong and consistent predictors of …

[HTML][HTML] Functional connectivity in reward circuitry and symptoms of anhedonia as therapeutic targets in depression with high inflammation: evidence from a dopamine …

M Bekhbat, Z Li, ND Mehta, MT Treadway… - Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Increased inflammation in major depressive disorder (MDD) has been associated with low
functional connectivity (FC) in corticostriatal reward circuits and symptoms of anhedonia …

Stress to inflammation and anhedonia: Mechanistic insights from preclinical and clinical models

CC Boyle, JE Bower, NI Eisenberger… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Anhedonia, as evidenced by impaired pleasurable response to reward, reduced reward
motivation, and/or deficits in reward-related learning, is a common feature of depression …

Inflammation‐driven brain and gut barrier dysfunction in stress and mood disorders

E Doney, A Cadoret, L Dion‐Albert… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Regulation of emotions is generally associated exclusively with the brain. However, there is
evidence that peripheral systems are also involved in mood, stress vulnerability vs …

Presentation and management of anxiety in individuals with acute symptomatic or asymptomatic COVID-19 infection, and in the post-COVID-19 recovery phase

G Uzunova, S Pallanti, E Hollander - International journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
COVID-19 is associated with neuropsychiatric complications, the most frequent one being
anxiety. Multiple biological and psychosocial factors contribute to anxiety in COVID-19 …

Aiding and abetting anhedonia: impact of inflammation on the brain and pharmacological implications

MJ Lucido, M Bekhbat, DR Goldsmith… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - ASPET
Exogenous administration of inflammatory stimuli to humans and laboratory animals and
chronic endogenous inflammatory states lead to motivational deficits and ultimately …

[HTML][HTML] Dysconnectivity of a brain functional network was associated with blood inflammatory markers in depression

AR Aruldass, MG Kitzbichler, SE Morgan, S Lim… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective There is increasing evidence for a subgroup of major depressive disorder (MDD)
associated with heightened peripheral blood inflammatory markers. In this study, we aimed …