Mapping risk factors for depression across the lifespan: an umbrella review of evidence from meta-analyses and Mendelian randomization studies

CA Köhler, E Evangelou, B Stubbs, M Solmi… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2018 - Elsevier
The development of depression may involve a complex interplay of environmental and
genetic risk factors. PubMed and PsycInfo databases were searched from inception through …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics of childhood trauma: Long term sequelae and potential for treatment

KM Thumfart, A Jawaid, K Bright, M Flachsmann… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Childhood trauma (CT) can have persistent effects on the brain and is one of the major risk
factors for neuropsychiatric diseases in adulthood. Recent advances in the field of …

Are the epigenetic changes predictive of therapeutic efficacy for psychiatric disorders? A translational approach towards novel drug targets

V Micale, M Di Bartolomeo, S Di Martino, T Stark… - Pharmacology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The etiopathogenesis of mental disorders is not fully understood and accumulating evidence
support that clinical symptomatology cannot be assigned to a single gene mutation, but it …

The moderating effects of sex on consequences of childhood maltreatment: from clinical studies to animal models

JD White, A Kaffman - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Stress has pronounced effects on the brain, and thus behavioral outputs. This is particularly
true when the stress occurs during vulnerable points in development. A review of the clinical …

Early maternal deprivation induces microglial activation, alters glial fibrillary acidic protein immunoreactivity and indoleamine 2, 3-dioxygenase during the …

GZ Réus, RH Silva, AB de Moura, JF Presa… - Molecular …, 2019 - Springer
Maternal deprivation (MD) induces behavioral changes and impacts brain circuits that could
be associated with the pathophysiology of depression. This study investigated the markers …

Neurodevelopmental theory of depression

P Gałecki, M Talarowska - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
The aim of research studies in the field of psychiatry conducted in recent years is to
formulate a consistent theory that would exhaustively explain the aetiology of depression. So …

Environmental enrichment improves lifelong persistent behavioral and epigenetic changes induced by early-life stress

LA Borba, LDR Broseghini, LM Manosso… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2021 - Elsevier
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of environmental enrichment (EE) in Wistar rats
subjected to maternal deprivation (MD). MD was performed in the first post-natal days (PND) …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic mechanisms impacted by chronic stress across the rodent lifespan

A Dion, PT Muñoz, TB Franklin - Neurobiology of Stress, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposures to stress at all stages of development can lead to long-term behavioural effects,
in part through changes in the epigenome. This review describes rodent research …

[HTML][HTML] Stress and serum cortisol levels in major depressive disorder: a cross-sectional study

AG Bertollo, RE Grolli, ME Plissari, VA Gasparin… - AIMS …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the disorders that most causes disability and
affects about 265 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization …

Early life experience contributes to the developmental programming of depressive-like behaviour, neuroinflammation and oxidative stress

GZ Réus, GC Fernandes, AB de Moura… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2017 - Elsevier
This study used an animal model of depression induced by maternal care deprivation (MCD)
to investigate whether depressive behaviour, neuroinflammation and oxidative stress were …