Site-Specific Antidepressant Effects of Repeated Subconvulsive Electrical Stimulation: Potential Role of Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-132

  Gersner, Roman ^a   Toth, Erika ^a   Isserles, Moshe ^b   Zangen, Abraham ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; chronic mild stress; depression; dorsal hippocampus; ECT; subconvulsive electrical stimulation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FOOD PREFERENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; SWIMMING;

EID: 71649102772     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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