Depression and coronary heart disease: 2018 position paper of the ESC working group on coronary pathophysiology and microcirculation

V Vaccarino, L Badimon, JD Bremner… - European heart …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Major depression is a highly prevalent condition, affecting approximately 10% of the
population. 1 It is also a growing global problem, 2 and has been consistently associated …

Neurotrophic factors and neuroplasticity pathways in the pathophysiology and treatment of depression

MJF Levy, F Boulle, HW Steinbusch… - …, 2018‏ - Springer
Depression is a major health problem with a high prevalence and a heavy socioeconomic
burden in western societies. It is associated with atrophy and impaired functioning of cortico …

Glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists rapidly reverse behavioral and synaptic deficits caused by chronic stress exposure

N Li, RJ Liu, JM Dwyer, M Banasr, B Lee, H Son… - Biological …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Despite widely reported clinical and preclinical studies of rapid
antidepressant actions of glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonists …

Astrocyte pathology in major depressive disorder: insights from human postmortem brain tissue

G Rajkowska, CA Stockmeier - Current drug targets, 2013‏ - ingentaconnect.com
The present paper reviews astrocyte pathology in major depressive disorder (MDD) and
proposes that reductions in astrocytes and related markers are key features in the pathology …

Structural neuroimaging studies in major depressive disorder: meta-analysis and comparison with bipolar disorder

MJ Kempton, Z Salvador, MR Munafò… - Archives of general …, 2011‏ - jamanetwork.com
Context Although differences in clinical characteristics exist between major depressive
disorder (MDD) and bipolar disorder (BD), consistent structural brain abnormalities that …

Roles of the medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex in major depression and its treatment

B Zhang, ET Rolls, X Wang, C **e, W Cheng… - Molecular …, 2024‏ - nature.com
We describe evidence for dissociable roles of the medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex
(OFC) in major depressive disorder (MDD) from structure, functional activation, functional …

Frontocingulate dysfunction in depression: toward biomarkers of treatment response

DA Pizzagalli - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2011‏ - nature.com
Increased rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC) activity has emerged as a promising
predictor of treatment response in depression, but neither the reliability of this relationship …

The neuroprogressive nature of major depressive disorder: pathways to disease evolution and resistance, and therapeutic implications

S Moylan, M Maes, NR Wray, M Berk - Molecular psychiatry, 2013‏ - nature.com
In some patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), individual illness characteristics
appear consistent with those of a neuroprogressive illness. Features of neuroprogression …

Depression in epilepsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

KM Fiest, J Dykeman, SB Patten, S Wiebe, GG Kaplan… - Neurology, 2013‏ - neurology.org
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of depression in persons with epilepsy (PWE) and the
strength of association between these 2 conditions. Methods: The MEDLINE (1948–2012) …

Neurobiology of emotion perception II: Implications for major psychiatric disorders

ML Phillips, WC Drevets, SL Rauch, R Lane - Biological psychiatry, 2003‏ - Elsevier
To date, there has been little investigation of the neurobiological basis of emotion
processing abnormalities in psychiatric populations. We have previously discussed two …