Where in the brain is depression?

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 634-642

  Pandya, Mayur ^a   Altinay, Murat ^a   Malone Jr , Donald A ^a   Anand, Amit ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DBS; Deep brain stimulation; Depression; FMRI; Limbic system; Major depressive disorder; MDD; Mood disorders; MRI; Neuroimaging; Parkinson's disease; PET; Psychiatry; Resting state connectivity; Stroke; TMS; Transcranial magnetic stimulation; Unipolar depression; Vagus nerve stimulation; VNS

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEPRESSION; EPILEPSY; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LIMBIC CORTEX; MENTAL FUNCTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SUBCORTEX; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; NEUROIMAGING; PARKINSON DISEASE;

EID: 84870779596     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-012-0322-7     Document Type: Review

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