[HTML][HTML] Embracing variability in the search for biological mechanisms of psychiatric illness

A Segal, J Tiego, L Parkes, AJ Holmes… - Trends in Cognitive …, 2025 - cell.com
Despite decades of research, we lack objective diagnostic or prognostic biomarkers of
mental health problems. A key reason for this limited progress is a reliance on the traditional …

Resistance training in depression

N Augustin, A Bendau, S Heuer… - Deutsches Ärzteblatt …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background More than 320 million people around the world suffer from depression. Physical
activity and sports are effective treatment strategies. Endurance training has already been …

Time to synergize mental health with brain health

A Ibanez, ER Zimmer - Nature Mental Health, 2023 - nature.com
This Comment highlights the intertwined nature of mental and brain health and disease.
Common genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors contribute to psychiatric and …

Brain, lifestyle and environmental pathways linking physical and mental health

YE Tian, JH Cole, ET Bullmore, A Zalesky - Nature Mental Health, 2024 - nature.com
Depression and anxiety are prevalent in people with a chronic physical illness. Increasing
evidence suggests that co-occurring physical and mental illness is associated with shared …

A Gpr35-tuned gut microbe-brain metabolic axis regulates depressive-like behavior

L Cheng, H Wu, X Cai, Y Zhang, S Yu, Y Hou, Z Yin… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2024 - cell.com
Gene-environment interactions shape behavior and susceptibility to depression. However,
little is known about the signaling pathways integrating genetic and environmental inputs to …

Functional connectome through the human life span

L Sun, T Zhao, X Liang, M **a, Q Li, X Liao, G Gong… - Biorxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The lifespan growth of the functional connectome remains unknown. Here, we assemble
task-free functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging data from 33,250 individuals …

Retinal neurodegeneration as a potential biomarker of accelerated aging in schizophrenia spectrum disorders

BA Blose, A Lai, C Crosta, JL Thompson… - Schizophrenia …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Hypotheses Several biological markers are believed to reflect
accelerated aging in schizophrenia spectrum disorders; however, retinal neural changes …

One or many labels? A longitudinal qualitative study of patients' journey to diagnosis at a specialist NHS Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) clinic

I Knoop, ASK Jones, E Ibrahimi, A Bogosian, N Gall… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Objectives Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTS) is a poorly understood syndrome of
multiple disabling symptoms. This study explored the process of seeking a diagnosis of …

Striatal dopamine gene network moderates the effect of early adversity on the risk for adult psychiatric and cardiometabolic comorbidity

B Barth, DM Arcego, EJ de Mendonça Filho… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Cardiometabolic and psychiatric disorders often co-exist and share common early life risk
factors, such as low birth weight. However, the biological pathways linking early adversity to …

Geroscience-centric perspective for geriatric psychiatry: integrating aging biology with geriatric mental health research

BS Diniz, J Seitz-Holland, R Sehgal, J Kasamoto… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The geroscience hypothesis asserts that physiological aging is caused by a small number of
biological pathways. Despite the explosion of geroscience research over the past couple of …