The CREB1-BDNF-NTRK2 pathway in depression: Multiple gene-cognition- environment interactions

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 762-771

  Juhasz, Gabriella ^a   Dunham, Jason S ^a   McKie, Shane ^a   Thomas, Emma ^a   Downey, Darragh ^a   Chase, Diana ^a   Lloyd Williams, Kathryn ^a   Toth, Zoltan G ^a   Platt, Hazel ^a   Mekli, Krisztina ^a,b   Payton, Antony ^a   Elliott, Rebecca ^a   Williams, Steve R ^a   Anderson, Ian M ^a   Deakin, J F William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

BDNF; childhood trauma; CREB1; depression; NTRK2; rumination

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RUMINATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECEPTOR, TRKB; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79953210012     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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