Major depression, with its strikingly high prevalence, is the most common cause of disability
in communities of Western type, according to data of the World Health Organization. Stress …

Drug addiction is a chronically relapsing disorder characterized by loss of control over intake
and dysregulation of stress-related brain emotional systems. Since the discovery by Wylie …

Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and the related urocortin peptides mediate behavioral,
cognitive, autonomic, neuroendocrine and immunologic responses to aversive stimuli by …

Over the past few decades, corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) signaling pathways have
been shown to be the main coordinators of the endocrine, behavioral, and immune …

Background: Dysregulated stress neurocircuits, caused by genetic and/or environmental
changes, underlie the development of many neuropsychiatric disorders. Corticotropin …

Background: Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) pathways coordinate behavioral,
endocrine, autonomic and visceral responses to stress. Convergent anatomical, molecular …

Many neuronal populations that release fast-acting excitatory and inhibitory
neurotransmitters in the brain also contain slower-acting neuropeptides. These facultative …

The eponymous term nucleus of Edinger‐Westphal (EW) has come to be used to describe
two juxtaposed and somewhat intermingled cell groups of the midbrain that differ …

Urocortins, three paralogs of the stress-related peptide corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF)
found in bony fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals, have unique phylogenies …

Nesfatin-1 reduces food intake when injected centrally in rodents. We recently described
wide distribution of nucleobindin2 (NUCB2)/nesfatin-1 immunoreactivity in rat brain …