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

Depression is a common, devastating illness. Current pharmacotherapies help many patients, but high rates of a partial response or no response, and the delayed onset of the effects of antidepressant therapies, leave many patients inadequately treated. However, new insights into the neurobiology of stress and human mood disorders have shed light on mechanisms underlying the vulnerability of individuals to depression and have pointed to novel antidepressants. Environmental events and other risk factors contribute to depression through converging molecular and cellular mechanisms that disrupt neuronal function and morphology, resulting in dysfunction of the circuitry that is essential for mood regulation and cognitive function. Although current antidepressants, such as serotonin-reuptake inhibitors, produce subtle changes that take effect in weeks or months, it has recently been shown that treatment with new agents results in an improvement in mood ratings within hours of dosing patients who are resistant to typical antidepressants. Within a similar time scale, these new agents have also been shown to reverse the synaptic deficits caused by stress.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:22

Enthalten in:

Nature medicine - 22(2016), 3 vom: 15. März, Seite 238-49

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Duman, Ronald S [VerfasserIn]
Aghajanian, George K [VerfasserIn]
Sanacora, Gerard [VerfasserIn]
Krystal, John H [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

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Antidepressive Agents
Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor
Cytokines
Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists
Glucocorticoids
Journal Article
Ketamine
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors

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Date Completed 19.07.2016

Date Revised 25.03.2024

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/nm.4050

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM258057637