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An Experimental Medicine Investigation of the Effects of Subacute Pramipexole Treatment on Emotional Information Processing in Healthy Volunteers
(2021-08)
Treatment with the dopamine D2/D3 receptor agonist pramipexole has demonstrated
promising clinical effects in patients with depression. However, the mechanisms through which
pramipexole might alleviate depressive symptoms ...
Statins for major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
(2021-03)
The burden of depressive disorder is large and new treatment approaches are required. Repurposing widely available drugs such as statins may be a time- and cost-effective solution. Statins have anti-inflammatory and ...
The effect of sertraline on emotional processing: secondary analyses of the PANDA randomised controlled trial
(2021-01)
Background. According to the cognitive neuropsychological model, antidepressants reduce
symptoms of depression and anxiety by increasing positive relative to negative information processing. Most studies of whether ...
Predicting treatment response in depression: the role of anterior cingulate cortex
(2018)
Background:
Identification of biomarkers predicting therapeutic outcome to antidepressant treatment is one of the most important tasks in current research because it may transform the lengthy process of finding the right ...
Accuracy in recognising happy facial expressions is associated with antidepressant response to a NOP receptor antagonist but not placebo treatment
(2021-10)
Background: Clinical trials with putative antidepressants can be difficult to execute as it can take up to 8 weeks before differences emerge between drug and placebo, and long expensive trials often fail. Implementation ...
Statins in depression: a repurposed medical treatment can provide novel insights in mental health
(2022-08)
Depression has a large burden, but the development of new drugs for its treatment has proved difficult. Progresses in neuroscience have highlighted several physiopathological pathways, notably inflammatory and metabolic ...
Fifty years on: Serotonin and depression
(2023-03)
It has been over 50 years since the original serotonin hypothesis was proposed by the British Psychiatrist Alec Coppen. Recently, some authors have questioned the validity of the hypothesis. In this narrative review, we ...
Predicting Antidepressant Treatment Response Using Functional Brain Controllability Analysis
(2023-03)
Introduction: For decades, predicting response to the antidepressant medication has been a critical unmet need in depression treatment in clinic, and a technical challenge in depression research.
Methods: In this study, ...
Effects of escitalopram therapy on functional brain controllability in major depressive disorder
(2022-04)
Antidepressant drugs are the mainstay of treatment for patients with major depressive disorders (MDD). Given the critical role of the underlying neural control mechanism in the physiopathology of depression, this study ...
Pramipexole for the Treatment of Depression: Efficacy and Mechanisms
(2023-11)
Dopaminergic mechanisms are a plausible treatment target for patients with clinical depression but are relatively underexplored in conventional antidepressant medications. There is continuing interest in the potential ...