Pathogenesis of depression: insights from human and rodent studies

C Ménard, GE Hodes, SJ Russo - Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Major depressive disorder (MDD) will affect one out of every five people in their lifetime and
is the leading cause of disability worldwide. Nevertheless, mechanisms associated with the …

Epigenetics and depression

S Penner-Goeke, EB Binder - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The risk for major depression is both genetically and environmentally determined. It has
been proposed that epigenetic mechanisms could mediate the lasting increases in …

Molecular adaptations of the blood–brain barrier promote stress resilience vs. depression

KA Dudek, L Dion-Albert, M Lebel… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Preclinical and clinical studies suggest that inflammation and vascular dysfunction
contribute to the pathogenesis of major depressive disorder (MDD). Chronic social stress …

Epigenetics in depression and gut-brain axis: A molecular crosstalk

N Begum, A Mandhare, KP Tryphena… - Frontiers in Aging …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Gut-brain axis is a dynamic, complex, and bidirectional communication network between the
gut and brain. Changes in the microbiota-gut-brain axis are responsible for developing …

Dietary fiber and its associations with depression and inflammation

OG Swann, M Kilpatrick, M Breslin… - Nutrition Reviews, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Dietary fiber is a crucial component of a healthy diet, with benefits that can be attributed to
processes in the gut microbiota and the resulting by-products. Observational studies support …

Epigenetics of the depressed brain: role of histone acetylation and methylation

HS Sun, PJ Kennedy, EJ Nestler - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2013 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder is a chronic, remitting syndrome involving widely distributed
circuits in the brain. Stable alterations in gene expression that contribute to structural and …

Epigenetic regulation in major depression and other stress-related disorders: molecular mechanisms, clinical relevance and therapeutic potential

M Yuan, B Yang, G Rothschild, JJ Mann… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic, generally episodic and debilitating disease
that affects an estimated 300 million people worldwide, but its pathogenesis is poorly …

Integrated neurobiology of bipolar disorder

V Maletic, C Raison - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2014 - frontiersin.org
From a neurobiological perspective there is no such thing as bipolar disorder. Rather, it is
almost certainly the case that many somewhat similar, but subtly different, pathological …

Epigenetic mechanisms of major depression: targeting neuronal plasticity

S Uchida, H Yamagata, T Seki… - Psychiatry and clinical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Major depressive disorder is one of the most common mental illnesses as it affects more
than 350 million people globally. Major depressive disorder is etiologically complex and …

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 …