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Pramipexole Enhances Reward Learning by Preserving Value Estimates
(2022-01)
Background: Dopamine D2-like receptor agonists show promise as treatments for depression. They are
thought to act by altering how individuals learn from rewarding experiences. However, the nature of these
reward learning ...
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 ...
No Association Between Amygdala Responses to Negative Faces and Depressive Symptoms: Cross-Sectional Data from 28,638 Individuals in the UK Biobank Cohort
(2022-07)
In this Priority Data Letter, we report on the largest study to date to test the association between amygdala reactivity and depressive symptoms based on UK Biobank data. For transparency, we initially set out to investigate ...
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 ...
Acute neural effects of fluoxetine on emotional regulation in depressed adolescents
(2022-05)
Adolescent major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with disrupted processing of emotional stimuli and difficulties in cognitive reappraisal. Little is known however about how current pharmacotherapies act to modulate ...
Machine learning prediction will be part of future treatment of depression
(2023-02)
Machine learning (ML) is changing the way that medicine is practiced. While already clinically utilised in diagnostic radiology and outcome prediction in intensive care unit, ML approaches in psychiatry remain nascent. ...
A co-produced online cultural experience compared to a typical museum website for mental health in people aged 16-24: A proof-of-principle randomised controlled trial
(2022-09)
Objective: We aimed to compare a co-produced online intervention encompassing the diverse human stories behind art and artefacts, named Ways of Being (WoB), with a typical museum website, the Ashmolean (Ash) on negative ...
Translating the promise of 5HT4 receptor agonists for the treatment of depression
(2020-02)
Animal experimental studies suggest that 5-HT4 receptor activation holds promise as a novel
target for the treatment of depression and cognitive impairment. 5-HT4 receptors are postsynaptic
receptors that are located in ...
Pro-dopaminergic pharmacological interventions for anhedonia in depression: protocol for a living systematic review of human and non-human studies
(2023-10)
Anhedonia is a key symptom of depression, and it has been suggested as a potential target for future individualised treatments. However, much is unknown about how interventions enhancing dopaminergic pathways may affect ...
Cognitive predictors of stress-induced mood malleability in depression
(2023-09)
Basic attentional control, negative biases in attention and interpretation, and rumination are all cognitive processes associated with depression; however, less is known about their predictive role in depressive mood ...