Neurotrophins in Depression and Antidepressant Effects

Growth Factors and Psychiatric Disorders

Volumn 289, Issue , 2008, Pages 43-52

  Castrén, Eero ^a   Rantamäki, Tomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

BDNF; Depression; Hippocampus; Mood disorders; Neurogenesis; Neurotrophins; Plasticity; Prefrontal cortex; Stress; TrkB

Indexed keywords

EID: 85051016089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470751251.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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