Synaptic plasticity and depression: New insights from stress and rapid-acting antidepressants

Nature Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 238-249

  Duman, Ronald S ^a   Aghajanian, George K ^a   Sanacora, Gerard ^a   Krystal, John H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CYTOKINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; INFLAMMASOME; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; KETAMINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INNATE IMMUNITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; SYNAPSE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME FACTOR;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYTOKINES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; KETAMINE; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84978745497     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.4050     Document Type: Review

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