Prefrontal cortex and depression

DA Pizzagalli, AC Roberts - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022‏ - nature.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) has emerged as one of the regions most consistently impaired in
major depressive disorder (MDD). Although functional and structural PFC abnormalities …

Toward a better understanding of the mechanisms and pathophysiology of anhedonia: are we ready for translation?

DA Pizzagalli - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2022‏ - psychiatryonline.org
Anhedonia—the loss of pleasure or lack of reactivity to pleasurable stimuli—remains a
formidable treatment challenge across neuropsychiatric disorders. In major depressive …

Positive affect treatment for depression and anxiety: A randomized clinical trial for a core feature of anhedonia.

MG Craske, AE Meuret, T Ritz, M Treanor… - Journal of consulting …, 2019‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Loss of pleasure or interest in activities (ie, anhedonia) is a risk factor for
suicidality, treatment nonresponse, and relapse. Extant treatments that focus on reducing …

Assessing anhedonia in depression: Potentials and pitfalls

SJ Rizvi, DA Pizzagalli, BA Sproule… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The resurgence of interest in anhedonia within major depression has been fuelled by
clinical trials demonstrating its utility in predicting antidepressant response as well as recent …

A randomized proof-of-mechanism trial applying the 'fast-fail'approach to evaluating κ-opioid antagonism as a treatment for anhedonia

AD Krystal, DA Pizzagalli, M Smoski, SJ Mathew… - Nature medicine, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)'fast-fail'approach seeks to improve
too-often-misleading early-phase drug development methods by incorporating biomarker …

Comorbidity of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: 20 years after.

CM Cummings, NE Caporino, PC Kendall - Psychological bulletin, 2014‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Brady and Kendall (1992) concluded that although anxiety and depression in youths are
meaningfully linked, there are important distinctions, and additional research is needed …

Treatment for anhedonia: A neuroscience driven approach

MG Craske, AE Meuret, T Ritz, M Treanor… - Depression and …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Anhedonia, or loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities, is characteristic of depression,
some types of anxiety, as well as substance abuse and schizophrenia. Anhedonia is a …

Rodent tests of depression and anxiety: Construct validity and translational relevance

S Gencturk, G Unal - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2024‏ - Springer
Behavioral testing constitutes the primary method to measure the emotional states of
nonhuman animals in preclinical research. Emerging as the characteristic tool of the …

Reward processing and mood-related symptoms: An RDoC and translational neuroscience perspective

R Nusslock, LB Alloy - Journal of affective disorders, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Background Two objectives of the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative are to
identify (a) mechanisms that are common to multiple psychiatric disorders, and (b) …

Advances in the computational understanding of mental illness

QJM Huys, M Browning, MP Paulus… - …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Computational psychiatry is a rapidly growing field attempting to translate advances in
computational neuroscience and machine learning into improved outcomes for patients …