Depression and obesity: evidence of shared biological mechanisms

Y Milaneschi, WK Simmons, EFC van Rossum… - Molecular …, 2019 - nature.com
Depression and obesity are common conditions with major public health implications that
tend to co-occur within individuals. The relationship between these conditions is …

Metabolic syndrome in psychiatric patients: overview, mechanisms, and implications

BWJH Penninx, SMM Lange - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Psychiatric patients have a greater risk of premature mortality, predominantly due to
cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Convincing evidence shows that psychiatric conditions are …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of depression identifies 102 independent variants and highlights the importance of the prefrontal brain regions

DM Howard, MJ Adams, TK Clarke, JD Hafferty… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Major depression is a debilitating psychiatric illness that is typically associated with low
mood and anhedonia. Depression has a heritable component that has remained difficult to …

Genome-wide association study of depression phenotypes in UK Biobank identifies variants in excitatory synaptic pathways

DM Howard, MJ Adams, M Shirali, TK Clarke… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Depression is a polygenic trait that causes extensive periods of disability. Previous genetic
studies have identified common risk variants which have progressively increased in number …

Association of inflammation with depression and anxiety: evidence for symptom-specificity and potential causality from UK Biobank and NESDA cohorts

Y Milaneschi, N Kappelmann, Z Ye, F Lamers… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
We examined whether inflammation is uniformly associated with all depressive and anxiety
symptoms, and whether these associations are potentially causal. Data was from 147,478 …

The future of rodent models in depression research

A Gururajan, A Reif, JF Cryan, DA Slattery - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Currently, over 300 million people worldwide have depression, and the socioeconomic
burden of this debilitating disorder is anticipated to increase markedly over the coming …

Depression and cardiovascular disease: epidemiological evidence on their linking mechanisms

BWJH Penninx - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Depression's burden of disease goes beyond functioning and quality of life and extends to
somatic health. Results from longitudinal cohort studies converge in illustrating that major …

The gut microbiota and depressive symptoms across ethnic groups

JA Bosch, M Nieuwdorp, AH Zwinderman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The gut microbiome is thought to play a role in depressive disorders, which makes it an
attractive target for interventions. Both the microbiome and depressive symptom levels vary …

Depression heterogeneity and its biological underpinnings: toward immunometabolic depression

Y Milaneschi, F Lamers, M Berk, BWJH Penninx - Biological psychiatry, 2020 - Elsevier
Epidemiological evidence indicates the presence of dysregulated homeostatic biological
pathways in depressed patients, such as increased inflammation and disrupted energy …

Reviewing the genetics of heterogeneity in depression: operationalizations, manifestations and etiologies

N Cai, KW Choi, EI Fried - Human molecular genetics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
With progress in genome-wide association studies of depression, from identifying zero hits
in~ 16 000 individuals in 2013 to 223 hits in more than a million individuals in 2020 …