Immune targets for therapeutic development in depression: towards precision medicine

WC Drevets, GM Wittenberg, ET Bullmore… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past two decades, compelling evidence has emerged indicating that immune
mechanisms can contribute to the pathogenesis of major depressive disorder (MDD) and …

Bidirectional microglia–neuron communication in health and disease

Z Szepesi, O Manouchehrian, S Bachiller… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Microglia are ramified cells that exhibit highly motile processes, which continuously survey
the brain parenchyma and react to any insult to the CNS homeostasis. Although microglia …

Neuroinflammation in bipolar depression

F Benedetti, V Aggio, ML Pratesi, G Greco… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a leading cause of worldwide disability among mood disorders.
Pathological mechanisms are still vastly unclear, and current treatments with conventional …

Early intervention in bipolar disorder

E Vieta, E Salagre, I Grande… - American Journal of …, 2018 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Bipolar disorder is a recurrent disorder that affects more than 1% of the world population and
usually has its onset during youth. Its chronic course is associated with high rates of …

Major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder predispose youth to accelerated atherosclerosis and early cardiovascular disease: a scientific statement from the …

BI Goldstein, MR Carnethon, KA Matthews… - Circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
In the 2011 “Expert Panel on Integrated Guidelines for Cardiovascular Health and Risk
Reduction in Children and Adolescents,” several medical conditions among youth were …

Inflamed moods: a review of the interactions between inflammation and mood disorders

JD Rosenblat, DS Cha, RB Mansur… - Progress in Neuro …, 2014 - Elsevier
Mood disorders have been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the
leading cause of disability worldwide. Notwithstanding the established efficacy of …

Cytokine alterations in bipolar disorder: a meta-analysis of 30 studies

A Modabbernia, S Taslimi, E Brietzke, M Ashrafi - Biological psychiatry, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: We conducted a meta-analysis of studies comparing cytokine
concentrations between patients with bipolar disorder (BD) and healthy control subjects …

Cytokines in bipolar disorder vs. healthy control subjects: a systematic review and meta-analysis

K Munkholm, JV Braüner, LV Kessing… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Bipolar disorder may be associated with peripheral immune system
dysfunction; however, results in individual studies are conflicting. Our aim was to …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammation, anxiety, and stress in bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder: A narrative review

LF Saccaro, Z Schilliger, A Dayer, N Perroud… - Neuroscience & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Bipolar disorder (BD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) are serious and prevalent
psychiatric diseases that share common phenomenological characteristics: symptoms (such …

Severe depression is associated with increased microglial quinolinic acid in subregions of the anterior cingulate gyrus: evidence for an immune-modulated …

J Steiner, M Walter, T Gos, GJ Guillemin… - Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
Background Immune dysfunction, including monocytosis and increased blood levels of
interleukin-1, interleukin-6 and tumour necrosis factor α has been observed during acute …