Impact of COVID-19 in the mental health in elderly: psychological and biological updates

RE Grolli, MED Mingoti, AG Bertollo, AR Luzardo… - Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Since December 2019, the world has been experiencing the challenge of facing coronavirus
disease-19 (COVID-19), a severe infectious disease caused by the new coronavirus, SARS …

Maternal immune activation: Implications for neuropsychiatric disorders

ML Estes, AK McAllister - Science, 2016 - science.org
Epidemiological evidence implicates maternal infection as a risk factor for autism spectrum
disorder and schizophrenia. Animal models corroborate this link and demonstrate that …

Ketamine and depression: a narrative review

A Corriger, G Pickering - Drug design, development and therapy, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Depression is the third leading cause of disability in the world. Depressive symptoms may
be reduced within several weeks after the start of conventional antidepressants, but …

Major depressive disorder

C Otte, SM Gold, BW Penninx, CM Pariante… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a debilitating disease that is characterized by
depressed mood, diminished interests, impaired cognitive function and vegetative …

Modulation of the antidepressant effects of ketamine by the mTORC1 inhibitor rapamycin

CG Abdallah, LA Averill, R Gueorguieva… - …, 2020 - nature.com
Twenty-four hours after administration, ketamine exerts rapid and robust antidepressant
effects that are thought to be mediated by activation of the mechanistic target of rapamycin …

Antidepressant effects of ketamine and the roles of AMPA glutamate receptors and other mechanisms beyond NMDA receptor antagonism

LR Aleksandrova, AG Phillips, YT Wang - Journal of Psychiatry and …, 2017 - jpn.ca
The molecular mechanisms underlying major depressive disorder remain poorly
understood, and current antidepressant treatments have many shortcomings. The recent …

Ketamine: a tale of two enantiomers

LA Jelen, AH Young, JM Stone - Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The discovery of the rapid antidepressant effects of the dissociative anaesthetic ketamine,
an uncompetitive N-Methyl-D-Aspartate receptor antagonist, is arguably the most important …

[HTML][HTML] The anti-inflammatory role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids metabolites in pre-clinical models of psychiatric, neurodegenerative, and neurological …

J Giacobbe, B Benoiton, P Zunszain… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Inflammation has been identified as one of the main pathophysiological mechanisms
underlying neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Despite the role of …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms of rapid-acting antidepressants: new perspectives for developing antidepressants

T Chen, L Cheng, J Ma, J Yuan, C Pi, L Xiong… - Pharmacological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic relapsing psychiatric disorder. Conventional
antidepressants usually require several weeks of continuous administration to exert …

Eradicating suicide at its roots: preclinical bases and clinical evidence of the efficacy of ketamine in the treatment of suicidal behaviors

D De Berardis, M Fornaro, A Valchera… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Despite the continuous advancement in neurosciences as well as in the knowledge of
human behaviors pathophysiology, currently suicide represents a puzzling challenge. The …