The incidence of depression and anxiety is amplified by obesity. Mounting evidence reveals
that the psychiatric consequences of obesity stem from poor diet, inactivity, and visceral …

Cumulative evidence shows a linkage between gut microbiota pattern and depression
through the brain-gut microbiome axis. The aim of this systematic review was to identify the …

Neurotransmitters serve as chemical messengers playing a crucial role in information
processing throughout the nervous system, and are essential for healthy physiological and …

Depression is widely acknowledged to be a heterogeneous entity, and the need to further
characterize the individual patient who has received this diagnosis in order to personalize …

Background: Depression diagnosis requires five or more symptoms (Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-DSM-5). One of them must be either Depressed mood …

Evidence highlights the comorbidity between emotional distress and irritable bowel
syndrome (IBS) through the gut-brain axis. However, the underlying mechanism is largely …

Psychiatry is enormously complex. One of its main difficulties is to articulate the relationship
between the wide assortment of factors that may cause or contribute to psychiatric disorders …

Depression is apparently the most common psychiatric disease among the mood disorders
affecting about 10% of the adult population. The etiology and pathogenesis of depression …

In the 40 years since Aaron Beck first proposed his cognitive model of depression, the
elements of this model—biased attention, biased processing, biased thoughts and …

The alterations of functional connectivity brain networks in major depressive disorder (MDD)
have been subject of a large number of studies. Using different methodologies and focusing …