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Anda RF, Felitti VJ, Bremner JD, Walker JD, Whitfield C, Perry BD, Dube SR, Giles WH. The enduring effects of abuse and related adverse experiences in childhood. A convergence of evidence from neurobiology and epidemiology. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 2006; 256:174-86. [PMID: 16311898 PMCID: PMC3232061 DOI: 10.1007/s00406-005-0624-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2147] [Impact Index Per Article: 119.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2005] [Accepted: 09/01/2005] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Childhood maltreatment has been linked to a variety of changes in brain structure and function and stress-responsive neurobiological systems. Epidemiological studies have documented the impact of childhood maltreatment on health and emotional well-being. METHODS After a brief review of the neurobiology of childhood trauma, we use the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study as an epidemiological "case example" of the convergence between epidemiologic and neurobiological evidence of the effects of childhood trauma. The ACE Study included 17,337 adult HMO members and assessed 8 adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) including abuse, witnessing domestic violence, and serious household dysfunction. We used the number of ACEs (ACE score) as a measure of cumulative childhood stress and hypothesized a "dose-response" relationship of the ACE score to 18 selected outcomes and to the total number of these outcomes (comorbidity). RESULTS Based upon logistic regression analysis, the risk of every outcome in the affective, somatic, substance abuse, memory, sexual,and aggression-related domains increased in a graded fashion as the ACE score increased (P <0.001). The mean number of comorbid outcomes tripled across the range of the ACE score. CONCLUSIONS The graded relationship of the ACE score to 18 different outcomes in multiple domains theoretically parallels the cumulative exposure of the developing brain to the stress response with resulting impairment in multiple brain structures and functions.
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- Robert F Anda
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adult and Community Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30341-3717, USA
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Connan F, Murphy F, Connor SEJ, Rich P, Murphy T, Bara-Carill N, Landau S, Krljes S, Ng V, Williams S, Morris RG, Campbell IC, Treasure J. Hippocampal volume and cognitive function in anorexia nervosa. Psychiatry Res 2006; 146:117-25. [PMID: 16510268 DOI: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2005.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2004] [Revised: 08/02/2005] [Accepted: 10/24/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We hypothesised that hippocampal volume would be reduced in underweight anorexia nervosa (AN) and associated with impaired hippocampus-dependent cognitive function. Hippocampal and whole brain volumes were measured in 16 women with AN and 16 matched healthy women using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and a manual tracing method. Participants also completed the Doors and People Test of hippocampus-dependent memory and an IQ test. After adjustment for total cerebral volume, there was significant bilateral reduction in hippocampal volume in the AN group (8.2% right; 7.5% left). There was no evidence of impaired hippocampus-dependent cognitive function and no evidence of a relationship between hippocampal volume and clinical features of AN. The reduced hippocampal volume in anorexia nervosa is not associated with changes in cognitive function. To understand the cause and consequence of hippocampal size and function, it will be important to integrate endocrine, neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies.
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- Frances Connan
- Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, SE5 8AF, UK.
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Lucht M, Barnow S, Schroeder W, Grabe HJ, Finckh U, John U, Freyberger HJ, Herrmann FH. Negative perceived paternal parenting is associated with dopamine D2 receptor exon 8 and GABA(A) alpha 6 receptor variants: an explorative study. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 2006; 141B:167-72. [PMID: 16402352 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.b.30255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Twin studies suggest a genetic influence upon perceived parenting. The D(2) dopaminergic receptor is involved in the modulation of social behaviors, and might influence parenting and its perception. A polymorphism (E8) in exon 8 of the D(2) receptor gene (DRD2) has been previously associated with alcoholism-related phenotypes. Similarly, the Pro385Ser variant of GABRA6, the polymorphic gene for GABA(A) receptor alpha6 subunit, has been associated with alcohol- and depression-related traits; and rat pups maintained a more immature GABAR phenotype after brief separation distress. The relationships among DRD2 (E8) and GABRA6 (Pro385Ser) polymorphisms, and perceived parenting were studied here. The association of DRD2 (E8) and GABRA6 (Pro385Ser) genotypes and perceived parental rearing behavior (short-EMBU; questionnaire concerning own memories concerning upbringing) were determined in 207 unrelated adults using multivariate analysis of variance. Temperaments (Temperament and Character Inventory; TCI) were included as covariates. Probands with DRD2 (E8) A/A genotype showed higher scores for father rejection (P = 0.011), parents overprotection (P = 0.021), and father overprotection (P = 0.016) in the total group. An interaction between DRD2 and GABRA6 genotypes on father rejection (P = 0.010) and parents rejection (P = 0.030) was also observed. Further analyses showed that these associations were restricted to the female subgroup only; however, secondary gender-specific analyses were not corrected for multiple testing. Our findings support a role for DRD2 (E8) and GABRA6 (Pro385Ser) in perceived parenting.
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- Michael Lucht
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Greifswald, Stralsund, Germany.
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It is now well-documented that exposures to uncontrollable (inescapable and unpredictable) stress in adulthood can have profound effects on brain and behavior. Converging lines of evidence from human and animal studies indicate that stress interferes with subsequent performances on a variety of hippocampal-dependent memory tasks. Animal studies further revealed that stress impedes ensuing induction of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the hippocampus. Because the hippocampus is important for key aspects of memory formation and because LTP has qualities congruent to an information storage mechanism, it is hypothesized that stress-induced modifications in hippocampal plasticity contribute to memory impairments associated with stress. Recent studies provide evidence that the amygdala, a structure important in stress- and emotion-related behaviors, plays a necessary role in the emergence of stress-associated changes in hippocampal LTP and memory. Early life stress also alters hippocampal plasticity and memory in a manner largely consistent with effects of adult stress exposure. This review focuses on endocrine-system-level mechanisms of stress effects in the hippocampus, and how stress, by altering the property of hippocampal plasticity, can subsequently influence hippocampal memory.
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- Jeansok J Kim
- Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1520, USA.
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Spencer SJ, Heida JG, Pittman QJ. Early life immune challenge--effects on behavioural indices of adult rat fear and anxiety. Behav Brain Res 2006; 164:231-8. [PMID: 16125259 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.06.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2005] [Revised: 06/14/2005] [Accepted: 06/16/2005] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Neonatal exposure to an immune challenge has been shown to alter many facets of adult physiology including fever responses to a similar infection. However, there is a paucity of information regarding its effects on adult behaviours. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were administered a single injection of the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS) at 14 days old and were compared, when they reached adulthood, with neonatally saline-treated controls in several behavioural tests of unconditioned fear and anxiety. There was no effect of the neonatal treatment on performance in either the elevated plus maze, modified Porsolt's forced swim test or the open field test. However, neonatally LPS-treated rats did show significantly reduced exploration of novel objects introduced to the open field arena, indicating an effect of the neonatal immune challenge on behaviours relating to anxiety in the adult.
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- Sarah J Spencer
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Dr. N.W., Calgary, Alta., Canada T2N 4N1.
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Douyon R, Herns Marcelin L, Jean-Gilles M, Page JB. Response to trauma in Haitian youth at risk. J Ethn Subst Abuse 2006; 4:115-38. [PMID: 16275637 PMCID: PMC1809752 DOI: 10.1300/j233v04n02_06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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In order to characterize undesirable behavior (drug use, fighting, criminal activity) among Haitian youth at risk and determine the relationship between traumatic experience and that kind of behavior, investigators recruited 292 Haitian youths via networks of informal social relations in two zones of Miami/Dade County strongly identified with Haitian ethnicity. Each recruit responded to an interview schedule eliciting sociodemographic information and self-reported activities, including involvement in youth-dominated groups. They also reported traumatic experience. Clinicians administered CAPS to a subset of those respondents who self reported traumatic experience. Staff ethnographers selected respondents for in-depth interviews and family studies to provide contextual depth for findings of the interview schedule and the CAPS assessments. Although traumatic experience may still play a role in mental health outcomes among children, childhood victimization among Haitian children does not appear to be related to the drug use and undesirable behaviors associated with unsupervised youth, including formation of gangs.
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- Richard Douyon
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
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OBJECTIVES To determine if stressful experiences in childhood are associated with an increased risk of chronic back problems later in life. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study in the Canadian household population. Study participants were respondents to the first 3 cycles of the National Population Health Survey in Canada who were 18 years of age or older at baseline (n = 9552). Cases of chronic back pain during a 4-year follow-up period were ascertained with an interviewer-administered questionnaire. Stressful experiences in childhood were measured by an index consisting of 7 questions. RESULTS In multivariate analyses, the risk of back pain was 1.17 (95% confidence interval 0.97-1.41) for 1 stressful event and 1.49 (95% confidence interval 1.21-1.84) for 2 or more events. The effect was consistent across subgroups defined by gender, socioeconomic status, and health status. Specific events associated with an increased risk included fearful experiences, prolonged hospitalization, and parental unemployment. DISCUSSION Our study shows that persons reporting multiple stressful experiences in childhood are at increased risk of developing chronic back problems.
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- Jacek A Kopec
- Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Darnaudéry M, Perez-Martin M, Bélizaire G, Maccari S, Garcia-Segura LM. Insulin-like growth factor 1 reduces age-related disorders induced by prenatal stress in female rats. Neurobiol Aging 2006; 27:119-27. [PMID: 16298247 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2005.01.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2004] [Revised: 12/22/2004] [Accepted: 01/05/2005] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Stress during the prenatal period can induce permanent abnormalities in adult life such as increased anxiety-like behavior and hyperactivity of hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis system. The present study was designed to investigate whether prenatal stress could induce spatial learning impairment in aged female rats. Furthermore, since it has been recently reported that insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) attenuates spatial learning deficits in aged rats and promotes neurogenesis in the hippocampus, we assessed the impact of a chronic infusion of IGF-1 on age-related disorders. Our results show that females stressed during prenatal life exhibit learning impairments in the water maze task. Chronic IGF-1 treatment restores their spatial abilities, reduces their HPA axis dysfunction and increases plasma estradiol levels. Parallel to these effects, chronic IGF-1 up-regulates neural proliferation in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. These findings support the hypothesis of an early programming of the vulnerability to some neurological diseases during senescence and reinforce the potential therapeutic interest of IGF-1 during brain aging.
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- Muriel Darnaudéry
- Laboratory of Perinatal Stress, University of Lille 1, JE2365, Bât. SN4.1, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
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Minzenberg MJ, Grossman R, New AS, Mitropoulou V, Yehuda R, Goodman M, Reynolds DA, Silverman JM, Coccaro EF, Marcus S, Siever LJ. Blunted hormone responses to Ipsapirone are associated with trait impulsivity in personality disorder patients. Neuropsychopharmacology 2006; 31:197-203. [PMID: 16123761 DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300853] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Impulsive aggression is associated with central serotonergic dysfunction. Animal models particularly implicate the 5-HT(1A) receptor in this behavior. We tested the hypothesis that central 5-HT(1A) receptor function is impaired in impulsive aggressive personality disorder patients. A total of 52 individuals with DSM-III-R personality disorders, all medically healthy adult outpatients without concurrent psychiatric medication treatment, underwent serial plasma cortisol, prolactin, and temperature measurements before and after ipsapirone 20 mg oral administration. Subjects completed self-report measures of impulsivity, hostility, depression and anxiety, and childhood maltreatment. Stepwise regression analysis revealed impulsivity alone among symptom measures to be associated with significantly decreased peak cortisol and prolactin responses. Diagnoses of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and intermittent explosive disorder-revised (IED-R) were associated with significantly increased and decreased cortisol responses, respectively. However, post hoc analyses indicated that impulsivity was significantly negatively correlated with cortisol responses in the BPD group, and may mediate the association of both BPD and IED-R with altered cortisol responses. Temperature response was associated with neither diagnostic nor symptom measures. Neither diagnostic nor dimensional measures of depression or anxiety, nor severity of childhood maltreatment, were significantly associated with cortisol, prolactin, or temperature responses. Impulsivity is related to impaired function at (or downstream to) postsynaptic 5-HT(1A) receptors, and this relationship may be partly responsible for the association of impaired serotonergic function with diagnoses such as BPD and IED-R. In addition, D(2) receptor dysfunction may play a role in impulsivity, whereas 5-HT(1A) cell-body autoreceptor function may be spared in these disorders.
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- Michael J Minzenberg
- Department of Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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Lomanowska AM, Rana SA, McCutcheon D, Parker LA, Wainwright PE. Artificial rearing alters the response of rats to natural and drug-mediated rewards. Dev Psychobiol 2006; 48:301-14. [PMID: 16617460 DOI: 10.1002/dev.20139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Artificial rearing (AR) of infant rats permits precise control over key features of the early environment without maternal influence. The present study examined the behavioral response of AR rats towards natural and drug-mediated rewards, as well as their exploratory and affective behaviors. Adolescent AR rats showed increased preference for sucrose consumption relative to chow and demonstrated greater activity in the open field and in the elevated plus-maze compared to maternally reared (MR) rats. With respect to measures of emotionality, AR rats showed enhanced avoidance of the open arms of the plus-maze, indicating increased anxiety, but they did not differ from MR rats in exploring the center of the open field. Adult AR rats displayed a stronger conditioned response to morphine in a place preference test. These findings support the potential of the AR model to contribute to understanding the role of early experience in the development of behavioral motivation.
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- Anna M Lomanowska
- Department of Health Studies and Gerontology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. N2L 3G1, Canada
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Vicentic A, Francis D, Moffett M, Lakatos A, Rogge G, Hubert GW, Harley J, Kuhar MJ. Maternal separation alters serotonergic transporter densities and serotonergic 1A receptors in rat brain. Neuroscience 2006; 140:355-65. [PMID: 16530973 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.02.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2005] [Revised: 02/03/2006] [Accepted: 02/04/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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RATIONALE The basic mechanisms underlying the association between early life maternal separation and adulthood psychiatric disorders are largely unknown. One possible candidate is the central serotonergic system, which is also abnormal in psychiatric illnesses. Neuroadaptational changes in serotonergic transporter and serotonergic 1A receptors may underlie links between early life stress and adulthood psychiatric disorders. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the consequences of a rat model of maternal separation on serotonergic transporter and serotonergic 1A receptor densities and function in adult rat forebrain. METHODS Rat pups were separated from dams from postnatal day 2 to postnatal day 14, each day, for zero time, 15 min and 180 min to determine the time-course of effects. A non-handled group was added to control for the effects of handling by an experimenter compared with the animal facility-reared group. Quantitative [(125)I]3beta-(4-iodophenyl)tropan-2beta-carboxylic acid methyl ester and [(125)I]-mPPI autoradiography was used to determine serotonergic transporter and serotonergic 1A densities, respectively. Adult rats were challenged with saline or serotonergic 1A agonist (+) 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin, 0.4 mg/kg, s.c.) and plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone and corticosterone were determined. RESULTS serotonergic transporter and serotonergic 1A densities were significantly lower in the non-handled group in the paraventricular, arcuate, dorsomedial and ventromedial nuclei of the hypothalamus. The non-handled group also displayed lower serotonergic transporter and serotonergic 1A densities in the basolateral anterior, basolateral ventral and basomedial amygdaloid nuclei. Serotonergic transporter densities were also decreased in the CA3 area of the hippocampus in the non-handled group. In contrast, the maternal separation 15 min group displayed the highest serotonergic transporter and serotonergic 1A densities in the basomedial nucleus of amygdala, basolateral anterior nucleus of amygdala, basolateral ventral nucleus of amygdala and basomedial nucleus of amygdala amygdaloid nuclei. CONCLUSIONS Early life maternal separation and the extent of handling can alter adult brain serotonergic transporter and serotonergic 1A levels and function in the forebrain. Alterations in these serotonergic systems by early rearing conditions might increase vulnerability for behavioral disorders in adulthood.
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- A Vicentic
- The Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University, 954 North Gatewood Road, Atlanta, GA 30329, USA.
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Swaab DF. The human hypothalamus in metabolic and episodic disorders. PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH 2006; 153:3-45. [PMID: 16876566 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6123(06)53001-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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- D F Swaab
- Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Meibergdreef 47, 1105BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Tokumo K, Hirai T, Nishino H. Effects of Perinatal Stress on the Emotion-Related Behavior of the Adolescent Mouse. Biol Pharm Bull 2006; 29:1036-8. [PMID: 16651741 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.29.1036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We examined the effects of perinatal stress on the emotion-related behavior of the mouse during their adolescent period. Firstly, we applied the sound noise and/or the forced swim stress to the maternal pregnant mice in the pregnant mice at 10 to 18 d gestation. The stress applied during the fetal period did affect neither the spontaneous locomotor activity of the offspring mice in a new environment at an age of 4 weeks, nor those sound-induced changes in the locomotor activity. Secondly, we applied the stress to the neonatal mouse during the late lactation period, 14 to 18 d after birth. The mice that underwent the forced swim stress accompanied by the sound noise stress showed a significant reduction of the locomotor activity. On the other hand, the mice that underwent the forced swim stress during the lactation period showed a significant increase in the locomotor activity after the stimulation by the sound noise. Lastly, we applied the stress to the neonatal mouse immediately after the weaning period, 21 to 25 d after birth. The spontaneous locomotor activity of the mice was not changed compared to that of the non-stressed group. Thus, it was found that the stress applied to the mice during the lactation period, thought to be the critical period of mouse brain development, selectively influenced the emotion-related behavior in the subsequent adolescent period. These results suggested that second postnatal week may be the critical period for establishing proper behavioral responses to emotional stress in the adolescent mouse.
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- Kohji Tokumo
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuyama University, Hiroshima, Japan
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Hatlevig J. Children's life transition following sexual abuse. JOURNAL OF FORENSIC NURSING 2006; 2:165-74. [PMID: 17228506 DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-3938.2006.tb00078.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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The life transition of children 6 to 13 years old was studied for 1 to 3 years following sexual abuse. Data included transcripts from in-depth interviews about the children's daily living experiences and drawings were analyzed using the ADOPT analysis procedure. Implications for nursing include the use of drawings as a research technique and the effectiveness of strategies used by participants to manage the aftermath of the trauma.
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Pickard BS, Pieper AA, Porteous DJ, Blackwood DH, Muir WJ. The NPAS3 gene--emerging evidence for a role in psychiatric illness. Ann Med 2006; 38:439-48. [PMID: 17008307 DOI: 10.1080/07853890600946500] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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NPAS3 is a member of the basic helix-loop-helix PAS domain class of transcription factors expressed in the brain. Evidence from a human chromosomal rearrangement and a mouse knock-out strain suggest that it may play a part in the aetiology of psychiatric illness. In this review, we describe evolutionary constraints on the NPAS3 gene, relevant functional studies from a related gene and the behavioural and hippocampal neurogenesis deficit observed in the mutant mouse. In addition, we speculate on the physiological regulation of NPAS3 and whether NPAS3 gene variation contributes to psychiatric illness at the population level.
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- Benjamin S Pickard
- Medical Genetics Section, School of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Molecular Medicine Centre, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
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Plotsky PM, Thrivikraman KV, Nemeroff CB, Caldji C, Sharma S, Meaney MJ. Long-term consequences of neonatal rearing on central corticotropin-releasing factor systems in adult male rat offspring. Neuropsychopharmacology 2005; 30:2192-204. [PMID: 15920504 DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 370] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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In a series of studies on the long-term consequences of neonatal rearing, we compared hypothalamic and extrahypothalamic central corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) systems in male rats reared under conditions of animal facility rearing, nonhandling (HMS0), handling with brief maternal separation for 15 min (HMS15), or handling with moderate maternal separation for 180 min (HMS180) daily from postnatal days 2-14. CRF-like immunoreactivity (CRFir) was elevated in lumbar cerebrospinal fluid of adult HMS180 and HMS0 rats relative to the other groups. In the paraventricular nucleus, central nucleus of the amygdala, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, and locus coeruleus, CRFir and CRF mRNA levels were significantly elevated in HMS0 and HMS180 rats. Neonatal maternal separation was associated with regionally specific alterations in CRF receptor type 1 (CRF1) mRNA density in HMS180 rats. No rearing-associated differences in CRF2alpha binding were apparent in either the lateral septum or the ventromedial hypothalamus. These findings indicate that early rearing conditions can permanently alter the developmental set-point of central CRF systems, and potentially influence the expression of behavioral and endocrine responses to stress throughout life, thereby providing a possible neurobiological substrate for the relationship between early life events and increased vulnerability for hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and coping skill alterations and the frequency of mood disorders in patients with a history of such experiences.
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MESH Headings
- Adrenocorticotropic Hormone/cerebrospinal fluid
- Adrenocorticotropic Hormone/metabolism
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn/physiology
- Behavior, Animal/physiology
- Corticosterone/cerebrospinal fluid
- Corticosterone/metabolism
- Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/metabolism
- Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/physiology
- Female
- Hypothalamus/physiology
- Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
- In Situ Hybridization
- Male
- Physical Stimulation
- Pregnancy
- RNA, Messenger/biosynthesis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Radioimmunoassay
- Rats
- Rats, Long-Evans
- Receptors, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/genetics
- Reflex, Startle
- Stress, Psychological/physiopathology
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- Paul M Plotsky
- Stress Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 1639 Pierce Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Serra M, Pisu MG, Floris I, Biggio G. Social isolation-induced changes in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in the rat. Stress 2005; 8:259-64. [PMID: 16423714 DOI: 10.1080/10253890500495244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Social isolation of rats both reduces the cerebrocortical and plasma concentrations of 3a-hydroxy-5a-pregnan-20-one (3a,5a-TH PROG) and 3a,5a-tetrahydrodeoxycorticosterone and potentiates the positive effects of acute stress and ethanol on the concentrations of these neuroactive steroids. We now show that social isolation decreased the plasma level of adrenocorticotropin (ACTH), moreover, intracerebroventricular administration of corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) induced a marked increase in the plasma corticosterone level in both isolated and group-housed rats, but this effect was significantly greater in the isolated rats (+121%) than in the group-housed rats (+86%). In addition, in isolated rats, a low dose of dexamethasone had no effect on the plasma corticosterone concentration, whereas, a high dose significantly reduced it; both doses of dexamethasone reduced plasma corticosterone in group-housed rats. Furthermore, the corticosterone level after injection of dexamethasone at the high dose was significantly greater in the isolated animals than in the group-housed rats. These results suggest that social isolation increased sensitivity of the pituitary to CRF and impaired negative feedback regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.
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- M Serra
- Department of Experimental Biology, University of Cagliari, Italy.
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Uys JDK, Muller CJF, Marais L, Harvey BH, Stein DJ, Daniels WMU. Early life trauma decreases glucocorticoid receptors in rat dentate gyrus upon adult re-stress: reversal by escitalopram. Neuroscience 2005; 137:619-25. [PMID: 16310967 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.08.089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2005] [Revised: 07/22/2005] [Accepted: 08/15/2005] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Early exposure to adverse experiences may lead to specific changes in hippocampal glucocorticoid function resulting in abnormalities within the hypothalamic-adrenal axis. Given interactions between the neuroendocrine and central serotonergic systems, we hypothesized that exposure to early trauma would lead to abnormal hypothalamic-adrenal axis activity that would be normalized by pretreatment with a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor. Hypothalamic-adrenal axis function was assessed by determining basal corticosterone levels and hippocampal glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactivity. Rats were subjected to a triple stressor on postnatal day 28, and again to a single swim re-stress session on postnatal day 35 and postnatal day 60. On postnatal day 61 i.e. 24 h after the last re-stress, trunk blood was collected for serum corticosterone determinations and hippocampal tissue was collected for immunohistochemistry of glucocorticoid receptors. Escitalopram (5mg/kg) or saline vehicle was administered from postnatal day 47-postnatal day 60 via osmotic mini-pumps. Animals exposed to early life trauma showed an increase in basal corticosterone levels, and a significant decrease in the ratio of glucocorticoid receptor positive cells to total cells in the hilus, granule cell layer and the dentate gyrus. Both the increase in basal corticosterone and decrease in glucocorticoid receptor immunoreactivity were reversed by escitalopram pretreatment. These data confirm alterations in hypothalamic-adrenalaxis function that may stem from decreases in glucocorticoid receptor levels, in response to early adverse experiences, and demonstrate that these alterations are reversed by serotonin re-uptake inhibitor pretreatment.
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MESH Headings
- Aging/physiology
- Animals
- Citalopram/pharmacology
- Dentate Gyrus/drug effects
- Dentate Gyrus/growth & development
- Dentate Gyrus/metabolism
- Disease Models, Animal
- Down-Regulation/drug effects
- Down-Regulation/physiology
- Glucocorticoids/blood
- Glucocorticoids/metabolism
- Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System/drug effects
- Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System/metabolism
- Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System/physiopathology
- Male
- Neurons/drug effects
- Neurons/metabolism
- Pituitary-Adrenal System/drug effects
- Pituitary-Adrenal System/metabolism
- Pituitary-Adrenal System/physiopathology
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptors, Glucocorticoid/drug effects
- Receptors, Glucocorticoid/metabolism
- Serotonin/metabolism
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors/pharmacology
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/drug therapy
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/metabolism
- Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/physiopathology
- Stress, Psychological/drug therapy
- Stress, Psychological/metabolism
- Stress, Psychological/physiopathology
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- J D K Uys
- Medical Research Council Research Unit for Anxiety and Stress-related Disorders, Department of Medical Physiology, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, 7505 South Africa.
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Card JP, Levitt P, Gluhovsky M, Rinaman L. Early experience modifies the postnatal assembly of autonomic emotional motor circuits in rats. J Neurosci 2005; 25:9102-11. [PMID: 16207869 PMCID: PMC6725770 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.2345-05.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Rat pups that are repeatedly handled and separated from their dam exhibit altered adult behavioral, endocrine, and autonomic responses to stress, but the extent to which early handling and/or maternal separation (H/S) alters the development of circuits that underlie these responses is unknown. The present study tested the hypothesis that early H/S alters the postnatal assembly of synapses within preautonomic emotional motor circuits. Circuit development was traced by synapse-dependent retrograde transneuronal transport of pseudorabies virus (PRV) from the stomach wall. Control and H/S rats were analyzed between postnatal day 6 (P6) and P10, a period of rapid synaptic assembly among preautonomic circuit components. Pups in H/S groups were removed from their dam daily for either 15 min or 3 h beginning on P1, and were injected with virus on P8 and perfused on P10. Quantitative analyses of primary and transsynaptic PRV immunolabeling confirmed an age-dependent assembly of hypothalamic, limbic, and cortical inputs to autonomic nuclei. Circuit assembly was significantly altered in H/S pups, in which fewer neurons in the central amygdala, the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis, and visceral cortices were infected compared with age-matched controls. In contrast, H/S did not alter the assembly of paraventricular hypothalamic inputs to gastric autonomic neurons. H/S-related reductions in limbic and cortical transneuronal infection were similar in pups exposed daily to 15 min or 3 h maternal separation. These findings support the view that environmental events during early postnatal life can influence the formation of neural circuits that provide limbic and cortical control over autonomic emotional motor output.
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- J Patrick Card
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Kroes RA, Panksepp J, Burgdorf J, Otto NJ, Moskal JR. Modeling depression: social dominance-submission gene expression patterns in rat neocortex. Neuroscience 2005; 137:37-49. [PMID: 16289586 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.08.076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2005] [Revised: 08/01/2005] [Accepted: 08/26/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Gene expression profiles in the cortex of adult Long-Evans rats as a function of a stressful social loss and victory in inter-male fighting encounters were examined. This social dominance and subordination model has been postulated to simulate early changes in the onset of depression in the losers. Microarrays were fabricated containing 45mer oligonucleotides spotted in quadruplicate and representing 1178 brain-associated genes. Dynamic range, discrimination power, accuracy and reproducibility were determined with standard mRNA "spiking" studies. Gene expression profiles in dominant and subordinate animals were compared using a "universal" reference design [Churchill GA (2002) Fundamentals of experimental design for cDNA microarrays. Nat Genet 32 (Suppl):490-495]. Data were analyzed by significance analysis of microarrays using rank scores [Tusher VG, Tibshirani R, Chu G (2001) Significance analysis of microarrays applied to the ionizing radiation response. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98:5116-5121; van de Wiel MA (2004) Significance analysis of microarrays using rank scores. Kwantitatieve Methoden 71:25-37]. Ontological analyses were then performed using the GOMiner algorithm [Zeeberg BR, Feng W, Wang G, Wang MD, Fojo AT, Sunshine M, Narasimhan S, Kane DW, Reinhold WC, Lababidi S, Bussey KJ, Riss J, Barrett JC, Weinstein JN (2003) GoMiner: a resource for biological interpretation of genomic and proteomic data. Genome Biol 4(4):R28]. And finally, genes of special interest were further studied using quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Twenty-two transcripts were statistically significantly differentially expressed in the neocortex between dominant and subordinate animals. Ontological analyses revealed that significant gene changes were clustered primarily into functional neurochemical pathways associated with protein biosynthesis and cytoskeletal dynamics. The most robust of these were the increased expression of interleukin-18, heat shock protein 27, beta3-tubulin, ribosome-associated membrane protein 4 in subordinate animals. Interleukin-18 has been found to be over-expressed in human depression and panic disorder as well as other physiological stress paradigms [Takeuchi M, Okura T, Mori T, Akita K, Ohta T, Ikeda M, Ikegami H, Kurimoto M (1999) Intracellular production of interleukin-18 in human epithelial-like cell lines is enhanced by hyperosmotic stress in vitro. Cell Tissue Res 297(3):467-473] and heat shock proteins have been shown to be involved in the pathogenesis of many neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders [Iwamoto K, Kakiuchi C, Bundo M, Ikeda K, Kato T (2004) Molecular characterization of bipolar disorder by comparing gene expression profiles of postmortem brains of major mental disorders. Mol Psychiatry 9(4):406-416; Pongrac JL, Middleton FA, Peng L, Lewis DA, Levitt P, Mirnics K (2004) Heat shock protein 12A shows reduced expression in the prefrontal cortex of subjects with schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry 56(12):943-950]. Thus, the gene expression changes that we have observed here are consistent with and extend the observations found in the clinical literature and link them to the animal model used here thereby reinforcing its use to better understand the genesis of depression and identify novel therapeutic targets for its treatment.
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- R A Kroes
- Falk Center for Molecular Therapeutics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, 1801 Maple Avenue, Suite 4300, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
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Haller J, Mikics E, Halász J, Tóth M. Mechanisms differentiating normal from abnormal aggression: glucocorticoids and serotonin. Eur J Pharmacol 2005; 526:89-100. [PMID: 16280125 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2005.09.064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2005] [Revised: 06/28/2005] [Accepted: 09/23/2005] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Psychopathology-associated human aggression types are induced by a variety of conditions, are behaviorally variable, and show a differential pharmacological responsiveness. Thus, there are several types of abnormal human aggression. This diversity was not reflected by conventional laboratory approaches that focused on the quantitative aspects of aggressive behavior. Recently, several laboratory models of abnormal aggression were proposed, which mainly model hyperarousal-driven aggressiveness (characteristic to intermittent explosive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, chronic burnout, etc.) and hypoarousal-driven aggressiveness (characteristic mainly to antisocial personality disorder and its childhood antecedent conduct disorder). Findings obtained with these models suggest that hyperarousal-driven aggressiveness has at its roots an excessive acute glucocorticoid stress response (and probably an exaggerated response of other stress-related systems), whereas chronic hypoarousal-associated aggressiveness is due to glucocorticoid deficits that affect brain function on the long term. In hypoarousal-driven aggressiveness, serotonergic neurotransmission appears to lose its impact on aggression (which it has in normal aggression), certain prefrontal neurons are weakly activated, whereas the central amygdala (no, or weakly involved in the control of normal aggression) acquires important roles. We suggest that the specific study of abnormal aspects of aggressive behavior would lead to important developments in understanding the specific mechanisms underlying different forms of aggression, and may ultimately lead to the development of better treatment approaches.
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- Jozsef Haller
- Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungarian Academy of Science, 1450 Budapest, P.O. Box 67, Hungary.
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LaFrance WC, Barry JJ. Update on treatments of psychological nonepileptic seizures. Epilepsy Behav 2005; 7:364-74. [PMID: 16150653 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2005.07.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2005] [Accepted: 07/14/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The literature on treatment of psychological nonepileptic seizures (NES) is limited, marked by a number of case reports and anecdotal approaches to this difficult-to-treat population. A recent review of the NES treatment literature revealed 20 reports dealing with NES treatment. The majority of the reports were class IV studies. Since the prior review, a number of pilot trials in NES treatment have been published. In this article, we summarize the etiologic conceptualizations of NES, and link these to mechanism informed treatments. We describe the recent literature on NES treatments and propose future directions for intervention research.
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- W Curt LaFrance
- Department of Psychiatry, Brown Medical School/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI, USA.
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Bardi M, Bode AE, Ramirez SM, Brent LY. Maternal care and development of stress responses in baboons. Am J Primatol 2005; 66:263-78. [PMID: 16015661 DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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The ability to mount a successful response to threats is critical for an organism's survival. A key element of the stress response is its nonspecificity toward the stress source, with similar endocrine and behavioral changes expected under a variety of stressors. In this project we utilized an experimental design that accounts for multiple sources of variation to further understand the nature of stress responsivity and its relationship to the early rearing environment. A sample of baboons (n=73) was observed during the early phase of life in their social group, and then tested as juveniles in a challenging situation. Maternal cortisol levels were measured during the peripartum period. The challenging situation (individuals were isolated for a few minutes in a single cage) was designed to be a moderate source of psychological stress. Patterns in individual differences during the stress test were "mapped" by means of multidimensional scaling (MDS). After the observation was made, the subject was sedated and a blood sample was taken to measure cortisol levels. Our results indicate that when juvenile baboons are confronted with a source of psychological stress, they show a multidimensional behavioral response, probably mediated by the activation and synergic interaction among different neurohormonal systems that, ultimately, act on the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. Different components of the multidimensional, or nonspecific, behavioral response are associated with the quality and quantity of interactions with their mothers during early life. Juveniles whose mothers displayed higher levels of positive interaction were characterized by vigilant but less active reactions to the stress test, whereas juveniles of mothers that displayed high levels of stress-related behaviors had higher cortisol and locomotion levels.
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- Massimo Bardi
- Department of Comparative Medicine, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, PO Box 760549, San Antonio, TX 78245, USA.
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Cryan JF, Holmes A. The ascent of mouse: advances in modelling human depression and anxiety. Nat Rev Drug Discov 2005; 4:775-90. [PMID: 16138108 DOI: 10.1038/nrd1825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 848] [Impact Index Per Article: 44.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Psychiatry has proven to be among the least penetrable clinical disciplines for the development of satisfactory in vivo model systems for evaluating novel treatment approaches. However, mood and anxiety disorders remain poorly understood and inadequately treated. With the explosion in the use of genetically modified mice, enormous research efforts have been focused on developing mouse models of psychiatric disorders. The success of this approach is largely contingent on the usefulness of available behavioural models of depression- and anxiety-related behaviours in mice. Here, we assess the current status of research into developing appropriate tests for assessing such behaviours.
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- John F Cryan
- Neuroscience Research, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel CH 4055, Switzerland.
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Sher L, Oquendo MA, Conason AH, Brent DA, Grunebaum MF, Zalsman G, Burke AK, Mann JJ. Clinical features of depressed patients with or without a family history of alcoholism. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2005; 112:266-71. [PMID: 16156833 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2005.00591.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To compare clinical features of depressed subjects without alcoholism but with a family history of alcoholism to a depressed group without alcoholism and without a family history of alcoholism. METHOD Clinical and demographic data of 209 depressed subjects without a history of alcoholism in first-degree relatives and 73 depressed individuals with a history of alcoholism in first-degree relatives were compared. Subjects with a personal history of alcoholism were excluded. RESULTS Depressed subjects with a family history of alcoholism have a significantly higher prevalence of reported childhood physical and sexual abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), make more suicide attempts, and have greater intent to die at the time of their most lethal suicide attempt, compared to depressed subjects without a family history of alcoholism. CONCLUSION Depressed patients with a family history of alcoholism are at greater risk for suicidal behavior and PTSD and may require more careful management.
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- L Sher
- Division of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY 10032, USA.
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The authors offer a framework for the assessment of psychological responses associated with exposure to early onset, multiple, or extended traumatic stressors. Six prominent and overlapping symptoms clusters are described: altered self-capacities, cognitive symptoms, mood disturbance, overdeveloped avoidance responses, somatoform distress, and posttraumatic stress. A strategy for the structured, psychometrically valid assessment of these outcomes is introduced, and specific recommendations for use of various generic and trauma-specific child and adult measures are provided. Implications of trauma assessment for treatment planning are discussed.
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- John Briere
- Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Disruption of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABAergic) interneuron development during the embryonic and early postnatal periods can have profound neurological and behavioral consequences. Hepatocyte growth factor/scatter factor (HGF/SF) has been identified as an important molecular cue that may guide the movement of interneurons from their birthplace in the ganglionic eminences (GE) to their final resting place in the neocortex. In vitro studies demonstrate that decreased HGF/SF bioactivity in pallial and subpallial tissues is associated with a reduction in the number of cells migrating out of GE explants. The uPAR knockout mouse provides a unique opportunity to study the effects of interneuron disruption in vivo. uPAR-/- mice have reduced HGF/SF bioactivity in the GE during the period of interneuron development and a concomitant 50% reduction in the number of GABAergic interneurons seeding frontal and parietal regions of the cerebral cortex. Behaviorally, these mice display an increased susceptibility to seizures, heightened anxiety, and diminished social interaction. This article discusses the commonalities between the functional defects seen in uPAR-/- mice and those of humans with developmental disorders, such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, and autism. It is suggested that disruption of GABAergic interneuron development may represent a common point of convergence underlying the etiologies of many of these developmental disorders.
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- Pat Levitt
- Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Nashville, Tennessee 37203, USA.
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Woods SJ, Wineman NM, Page GG, Hall RJ, Alexander TS, Campbell JC. Predicting immune status in women from PTSD and childhood and adult violence. ANS Adv Nurs Sci 2005; 28:306-19. [PMID: 16292017 DOI: 10.1097/00012272-200510000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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This study uses a predictive exploratory design to test the relationships between and among childhood maltreatment, intimate partner violence (IPV), posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and immune status in abused women. A convenience sample of 126 abused women and 12 nonabused women matched for age and race/ethnicity were recruited. The woman's current smoking habit, history of childhood maltreatment, experience of IPV, and PTSD symptoms predicted immune status. This prediction occurs through both direct and indirect pathways from IPV to immune status and from IPV to immune status through PTSD.
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Korkeila K, Korkeila J, Vahtera J, Kivimäki M, Kivelä SL, Sillanmäki L, Koskenvuo M. Childhood adversities, adult risk factors and depressiveness: a population study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2005; 40:700-6. [PMID: 16151596 DOI: 10.1007/s00127-005-0969-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/22/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Childhood adversities have been associated with adulthood depressiveness, but the contribution of adult risk factors is seldom described. We examined whether adult risk factors lie on the pathway from childhood adversity to adult depressiveness (pathway hypothesis) or whether the association depends on life events (vulnerability hypothesis). METHOD Among 21,101 randomly sampled working-aged respondents [the Health and Social Support in Finland (HeSSup) Study], the hypotheses were tested with logistic regression analysis models studying the associations between Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)-assessed depressiveness and self-reported childhood adversities alone and in combination with recent adverse events. RESULTS Childhood adversities were consistently associated with depressiveness (women, age-adjusted odds ratio 3.1, 95% confidence intervals 2.6-3.7; men, 2.6, 2.1-3.3), although the risks were decreased by more than 30% after adjustments for adult risk factors such as living alone, education, alcohol consumption, social support and negative affectivity. Childhood adversities combined with recent life events were associated with depressiveness in an additive manner. Women with childhood adversities and recent person-independent events especially had increased vulnerability for depressiveness. CONCLUSIONS The childhood adversity-depressiveness associations were partly mediated by adult risk factors, supporting a pathway from childhood adversities to depressiveness through adult risk factors. Increased vulnerability for depressiveness was found among respondents with childhood adversities in combination with recent death/illness events. The findings emphasize the importance of early risk factors when identifying persons at risk of depression.
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- Katariina Korkeila
- Dept. of Family Medicine, University of Turku, Lemminkäisenkatu 1, Turku, Finland.
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de Jongh R, Geyer MA, Olivier B, Groenink L. The effects of sex and neonatal maternal separation on fear-potentiated and light-enhanced startle. Behav Brain Res 2005; 161:190-6. [PMID: 15878207 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.02.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2004] [Revised: 02/01/2005] [Accepted: 02/10/2005] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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This study was based on the higher prevalence of anxiety disorders in women than in men, and on the finding that early adverse experiences are a major risk factor for the development of anxiety disorders later in life. The object of this study was to investigate in rats, the sensitivities of the light-enhanced startle (LES) and fear-potentiated startle (FPS) paradigms to sex differences and to determine the effects of maternal separation (MS) on the baseline startle magnitude and potentiated startle response in these paradigms. Pups in the MS group were separated daily from their mother for 180 min/day from postnatal day 2 (PND2) to PND14. Control litters remained undisturbed. The adult male and female progeny were tested in the FPS and LES. As predicted, females showed a significantly greater potentiation of startle than males in the FPS, and a strong trend towards greater startle potentiation in the LES. Contrary to predictions, MS had no effect on startle potentiation in the FPS and severely disrupted LES in female, but not male rats. The observed sex differences add to the validity of the FPS and LES as animal paradigms of fear and anxiety. The findings indicate that these paradigms can be used to study the biological basis of sex differences in fear and anxiety. In contrast, the effects of MS on startle potentiation argue against the idea that MS provides a robust model for the predicted influences of early adverse effects on these startle potentiation measures of fear and anxiety.
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- Reinoud de Jongh
- Department of Psychopharmacology, Utrecht Institute for Pharmaceutical Sciences and Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, Sorbonnelaan 16, 3584 CA Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Slawecki CJ, Thorsell AK, El Khoury A, Mathé AA, Ehlers CL. Increased CRF-like and NPY-like immunoreactivity in adult rats exposed to nicotine during adolescence: relation to anxiety-like and depressive-like behavior. Neuropeptides 2005; 39:369-77. [PMID: 16038974 DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2005.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Recently, animal models have been developed that demonstrate that adolescent nicotine exposure produces neurobehavioral changes which persist into adulthood. This study further examined the impact of adolescent nicotine exposure on anxiety-like and depressive-like behavior, as well as on levels of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and neuropeptide Y (NPY) in this model. METHODS Male adolescent rats (35-40 days old) were administered nicotine using Nicoderm CQ patches (Smith-Kline Beecham). Behavior in the elevated plus maze (EPM) and forced swim test (FST) was assessed 2-3 weeks after exposure ended. Brain levels of CRF and NPY were then assessed 5-6 weeks after behavioral tests were completed. In addition, blood and brain levels of nicotine resulting from nicotine treatment were examined. RESULTS After 5 days of exposure to 5 mg/kg/day nicotine, blood levels of nicotine averaged 66+/-5 ng/ml and brain nicotine levels averaged 52+/-4 ng/g. Rats exposed to nicotine displayed an anxiety-like profile in the EPM (i.e., decreased time spent in the open arms) and an antidepressant-like profile in the FST (i.e., less time spent immobile). Rats exposed to nicotine also had increased hypothalamic and frontal cortical CRF, increased hypothalamic and hippocampal NPY, and a decreased ratio of NPY to CRF in the amygdala. CONCLUSIONS This study demonstrates that adolescent nicotine exposure produces lasting increases in anxiety-like behavior and may reduce depressive-like behavior. These behavioral changes also occurred in concert with alterations in CRF and NPY systems. Thus, lasting neurobehavioral changes associated with adolescent nicotine exposure may be related to allostatic changes in stress peptide systems.
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- Craig J Slawecki
- Department of Neuropharmacology, CVN-14, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
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Worthman CM, Kohrt B. Receding horizons of health: biocultural approaches to public health paradoxes. Soc Sci Med 2005; 61:861-78. [PMID: 15950096 DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2002] [Accepted: 08/06/2004] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Worldwide challenges to health reflect a "paradox of success," whereby both the strengths and the weaknesses of current approaches in public health, epidemiology, and biomedicine have determined the nature of the health problems we now face. In detail, we analyze and illustrate five constituent paradoxes that fuel continued health risk even in the face of success, including: (1) unmasking, (2) local biology, (3) socialization, (4) emerging and reemerging disease, and (5) savage inequity. We trace the pathways behind the paradoxes and their effects on health, and demonstrate that biocultural dynamics are involved in each. Furthermore, we track the roots of health paradox to changes that divert or disrupt pathways for production of health. These analyses contribute to an emerging literature of research and praxis on integrative biocultural models of health.
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- Carol M Worthman
- Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
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Motta MDG, Lucion AB, Manfro GG. Efeitos da depressão materna no desenvolvimento neurobiológico e psicológico da criança. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005. [DOI: 10.1590/s0101-81082005000200007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Vários estudos recentes têm demonstrado a repercussão da privação materna no desenvolvimento neurobiológico e psicológico da criança. A depressão pós-parto, quando persistente, pode favorecer a ocorrência de situações de negligência e abuso infantil. Este trabalho tem como objetivo revisar estudos publicados a partir de 1988 que demonstrem alterações no desenvolvimento neurológico, endócrino, mental e comportamental de crianças cujas mães tiveram depressão pós-parto. A importância do meio ambiente inicial foi revisada em estudos pré-clínicos com mamíferos não-humanos, demonstrando que, quando há privação ou estresse no início do desenvolvimento, ocorrem alterações persistentes em estruturas encefálicas, em secreções neuro-hormonais e na densidade de receptores específicos. Também serão descritos alguns aportes teóricos sobre a importância da relação mãe-bebê concordantes com os achados experimentais.
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- Maria da Graça Motta
- Sociedade de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul; Sociedade de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul
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- Sociedade de Psiquiatria do Rio Grande do Sul; Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
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Kohanyi A. Four Factors That May Predict the Emergence of Creative Writing: A Proposed Model. CREATIVITY RESEARCH JOURNAL 2005. [DOI: 10.1207/s15326934crj1702&3_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Caffo E, Forresi B, Strik Lievers L. Impact, psychological sequelae and management of trauma affecting children and adolescents. Curr Opin Psychiatry 2005; 18:422-8. [PMID: 16639136 DOI: 10.1097/01.yco.0000172062.01520.ac] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW In this review we examine the most recent literature on the impact, psychological sequelae and management of trauma affecting children and adolescents. We focus on consequences of early traumatic events in childhood, adolescence and adulthood; mediating variables (risk and protective factors) intervention strategies and available treatments. RECENT FINDINGS Increasingly often, mental health professionals are being asked to address the needs of children and adolescents who have been exposed to traumatic events, either as individuals or in groups. Studies on a wide range of age groups, populations and types of trauma revealed that traumatized children and adolescents are at high risk for developing a range of different behavioural, psychological and neurobiological problems. Social support may have a protective effect on the relationship between exposure to traumatic events and psychosocial symptoms. SUMMARY Several recent studies analyze a wide range of early traumatic events that may be directly or indirectly experienced by youth. These studies raise many fundamental questions such as validity of current diagnostic criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, comorbidity with anxiety, depressive disorders and childhood traumatic grief symptoms. Vulnerability and protective factors, mainly gender, age and social support are considered. A common problem in research into the impact of trauma on children is the presence of many limitations: studies are often retrospective, use self-report questionnaires and the results may not be generalizable (i.e. they are trauma or population specific). There is a lack of well designed studies, addressing in particular treatments for post-traumatic symptoms in children and adolescents.
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- Ernesto Caffo
- Mother Child Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
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Ladd CO, Thrivikraman KV, Huot RL, Plotsky PM. Differential neuroendocrine responses to chronic variable stress in adult Long Evans rats exposed to handling-maternal separation as neonates. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2005; 30:520-33. [PMID: 15808921 DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2004.12.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2004] [Accepted: 12/13/2004] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Burgeoning evidence supports a preeminent role for early- and late-life stressors in the development of physio- and psychopathology. Handling-maternal separation (HMS) in neonatal Long Evans hooded rats leads to stable phenotypes ranging from resilient to vulnerable to later stressor exposure. Handling with 180 min of maternal separation yields a phenotype of stress hyper-responsiveness associated with facilitation of regional CRF neurocircuits and glucocorticoid resistance. This study assessed whether or not prolonged HMS (180 min/day, HMS180) on post-natal days 2-14 sensitizes the adult limbic hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal (LHPA) axis to chronic variable stress (CS) compared to brief HMS (15 min/day, HMS15). We examined regional mRNA densities of corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), its receptor CRF1, glucocorticoid receptor (GR), and mineralocorticoid receptor (MR); regional CRF1 and CRF2alpha binding, and pituitary-adrenal responses to an acute air-puff startle (APS) stressor in four groups: HMS15, nonstressed; HMS15, stressed; HMS180, nonstressed; HMS180, stressed. As expected we observed exaggerated pituitary-adrenal responses to APS, increased regional CRF mRNA density, decreased regional CRF1 binding, and decreased cortical GR mRNA density in nonstressed HMS180 vs. HMS15 animals. However, in contrast to our hypothesis, CS decreased pituitary-adrenal reactivity and central amygdala CRF mRNA density in HMS180 rats, while increasing cortical GR mRNA density and CRF1 binding. CS had no effect on the pituitary-adrenal response to APS in HMS15 rats, despite tripling hypothalamic paraventricular CRF mRNA density. The data suggest that many effects of prolonged HMS are reversible in adulthood by CS, while the neuroendocrine adaptations imbued by brief HMS are sufficiently stable to restrain pituitary-adrenal stress responses even following CS.
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MESH Headings
- Adaptation, Physiological
- Adrenocorticotropic Hormone/blood
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn/psychology
- Chronic Disease
- Corticosterone/blood
- Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/genetics
- Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/metabolism
- Disease Models, Animal
- Female
- Handling, Psychological
- Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System/metabolism
- Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System/physiopathology
- Male
- Maternal Deprivation
- Pituitary-Adrenal System/metabolism
- Pituitary-Adrenal System/physiopathology
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Random Allocation
- Rats
- Rats, Long-Evans
- Receptors, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/genetics
- Receptors, Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone/metabolism
- Receptors, Glucocorticoid/genetics
- Receptors, Glucocorticoid/metabolism
- Receptors, Mineralocorticoid/genetics
- Receptors, Mineralocorticoid/metabolism
- Reflex, Startle/physiology
- Stress, Psychological/metabolism
- Stress, Psychological/physiopathology
- Tissue Distribution
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- Charlotte O Ladd
- Stress Neurobiology Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, 1639 Pierce Drive, Ste 4105, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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In response to stress, the brain activates several neuropeptide-secreting systems. This eventually leads to the release of adrenal corticosteroid hormones, which subsequently feed back on the brain and bind to two types of nuclear receptor that act as transcriptional regulators. By targeting many genes, corticosteroids function in a binary fashion, and serve as a master switch in the control of neuronal and network responses that underlie behavioural adaptation. In genetically predisposed individuals, an imbalance in this binary control mechanism can introduce a bias towards stress-related brain disease after adverse experiences. New candidate susceptibility genes that serve as markers for the prediction of vulnerable phenotypes are now being identified.
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- E Ron de Kloet
- Department of Medical Pharmacology, Leiden Amsterdam Center for Drug Research and Leiden University Medical Center, Gorlaeus Laboratories, Leiden University, PO Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Ehnvall A, Palm-Beskow A, Beskow J, Agren H. Perception of rearing circumstances relates to course of illness in patients with therapy-refractory affective disorders. J Affect Disord 2005; 86:299-303. [PMID: 15935251 DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2005.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2003] [Revised: 01/04/2005] [Accepted: 01/10/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Qualitative aspects of childhood experiences are believed to have an impact on course in affective disorder. Does perception of parental rearing correlate to persistence of affective illness? METHODS In retrospective life charts were recorded every previous illness episode for 38 consecutive patients with treatment-refractory affective disorder. A semi-structured interview was used for collecting information about perception of parental rearing. RESULTS Ten patients perceived themselves as "unwanted" during childhood, and 28 as "wanted". These former were found to have a more malignant illness course, as measured by total days in illness, percent of life in illness, and illness days per episode. LIMITATIONS The patient sample was small and the findings require replication. CONCLUSIONS Perception of not having been wanted by parents during upbringing might be an important vulnerability factor in the persistence of depressive symptomatology into adult life.
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- A Ehnvall
- Research and Development Unit, Varberg Hospital, SE-432 81 Varberg, Sweden.
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Hahn MK, Mazei-Robison MS, Blakely RD. Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Human Norepinephrine Transporter Gene Affect Expression, Trafficking, Antidepressant Interaction, and Protein Kinase C Regulation. Mol Pharmacol 2005; 68:457-66. [PMID: 15894713 DOI: 10.1124/mol.105.011270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The role of norepinephrine (NE) in attention, memory, affect, stress, heart rate, and blood pressure implicates NE in psychiatric and cardiovascular disease. The norepinephrine transporter (NET) mediates reuptake of released catecholamines, thus playing a role in the limitation of signaling strength in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human NET (hNET) gene that influence transporter function can contribute to disease, such as the nonfunctional transporter, A457P, identified in orthostatic intolerance. Here, we examine additional amino acid variants that have been identified but not characterized in populations that include cardiovascular phenotypes. Variant hNETs were expressed in COS-7 cells and were assayed for protein expression and trafficking using cell-surface biotinylation and Western blot analysis, transport of radiolabeled substrate, antagonist interaction, and regulation through protein kinase C (PKC)-linked pathways by the phorbol ester beta-phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate. We observed functional perturbations in 6 of the 10 mutants studied. Several variants were defective in trafficking and transport, with the most dramatic effect observed for A369P, which was completely devoid of the fully glycosylated form of transporter protein, was retained intracellularly, and lacked any transport activity. Furthermore, A369P and another trafficking variant, N292T, impeded surface expression of hNET when coexpressed. F528C demonstrated increased transport and, remarkably, exhibited both insensitivity to down-regulation by PKC and a decrease in potency for the tricyclic antidepressant desipramine. These findings reveal functional deficits that are likely to compromise NE signaling in SNP carriers in the population and identify key regions of NET contributing to transporter biosynthesis, activity, and regulation.
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- Maureen K Hahn
- Center for Molecular Neuroscience, 6133 Medical Research Building III, Suite 7140, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232-8548, USA
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Schechter DS, Zeanah CH, Myers MM, Brunelli SA, Liebowitz MR, Marshall RD, Coates SW, Trabka KA, Baca P, Hofer MA. Psychobiological dysregulation in violence-exposed mothers: salivary cortisol of mothers with very young children pre- and post-separation stress. Bull Menninger Clin 2005; 68:319-36. [PMID: 15843179 DOI: 10.1521/bumc.68.4.319.56642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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UNLABELLED To understand the determinants of frightening/frightened and other atypical maternal behavior, the authors studied a sample of 41 inner-city mothers of very young children (ages 8-50 months), the mothers of whom had lifetime histories of interpersonal violent trauma (i.e., physical or sexual abuse, and domestic violence) and related posttraumatic stress. METHOD The authors measured (1) maternal salivary cortisol levels before and 30 minutes after a videotaped play paradigm with their children, involving two separations and reunions; and (2) cortisol reactivity 30 minutes after separation stress. Data were analyzed using Pearson bivariate correlations, ANOVA, and multiple linear regressions. RESULTS Salivary cortisol "baseline" values were significantly negatively correlated with childhood interpersonal violent trauma severity (i.e., trauma severity prior to age 16). However, cortisol reactivity was not significantly correlated with interpersonal violent trauma severity at this level of analysis. Although baseline salivary cortisol values were not significantly correlated with current overall psychiatric or depressive symptoms, they were negatively correlated with severity of current posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and with dissociative symptoms. Neither dimensions of negativity nor distortion of maternal attributions showed any significant association with prestress or poststress salivary cortisol levels. Salivary cortisol baseline was negatively correlated with atypical maternal behavior via measurement of the level of disrupted communication, at a trend-level of significance. CONCLUSIONS Violent trauma-associated dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis may be a marker for increased risk for intergenerational transmission via parenting behavior with young children. Low salivary cortisol prior to separation stress and blunted cortisol reactivity to separation may also be markers for posttraumatic stress.
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- Daniel S Schechter
- Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
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Ford JD. Treatment Implications of Altered Affect Regulation and Information Processing Following Child Maltreatment. Psychiatr Ann 2005. [DOI: 10.3928/00485713-20050501-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Buerki S, Adler RH. Negative affect states and cardiovascular disorders: a review and the proposal of a unifying biopsychosocial concept. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 2005; 27:180-8. [PMID: 15882764 DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2004.12.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2004] [Accepted: 12/08/2004] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AIM The purpose of this review was to study the relationships between negative affect states and cardiovascular disorders. PROCEDURE The phenomenology of the negative affect states of depression, helplessness, hopelessness, vital exhaustion and grief is described. Their correlations with morbidity and mortality are analyzed. The physiological correlates of the affect states are pointed out. Finally, the reaction pattern of conservation-withdrawal according to Schmale and Engel and its ontogenesis are outlined. This is a disengaging behavior pattern as opposed to the engaging fight-flight reaction pattern of Cannon. The giving up complex, with its affects of helplessness and hopelessness, is explained. CONCLUSIONS The giving up complex in the context of the conservation-withdrawal pattern presents a biologically and developmentally sound conceptual basis for the understanding of the relationships of the negative affect states with cardiovascular disorders. This enables the integration of the concept of vital exhaustion, which has become the most promising operationalized instrument in psychosocial cardiovascular research.
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- Sarah Buerki
- Department of General Internal Medicine, Medical Division Lory, Inselspital, University of Berne, 3010 Berne, Switzerland
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Swaab DF, Bao AM, Lucassen PJ. The stress system in the human brain in depression and neurodegeneration. Ageing Res Rev 2005; 4:141-94. [PMID: 15996533 DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2005.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 634] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2005] [Accepted: 03/14/2005] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) plays a central role in the regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis, i.e., the final common pathway in the stress response. The action of CRH on ACTH release is strongly potentiated by vasopressin, that is co-produced in increasing amounts when the hypothalamic paraventricular neurons are chronically activated. Whereas vasopressin stimulates ACTH release in humans, oxytocin inhibits it. ACTH release results in the release of corticosteroids from the adrenal that, subsequently, through mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors, exert negative feedback on, among other things, the hippocampus, the pituitary and the hypothalamus. The most important glucocorticoid in humans is cortisol, present in higher levels in women than in men. During aging, the activation of the CRH neurons is modest compared to the extra activation observed in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the even stronger increase in major depression. The HPA-axis is hyperactive in depression, due to genetic factors or due to aversive stimuli that may occur during early development or adult life. At least five interacting hypothalamic peptidergic systems are involved in the symptoms of major depression. Increased production of vasopressin in depression does not only occur in neurons that colocalize CRH, but also in neurons of the supraoptic nucleus (SON), which may lead to increased plasma levels of vasopressin, that have been related to an enhanced suicide risk. The increased activity of oxytocin neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) may be related to the eating disorders in depression. The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), i.e., the biological clock of the brain, shows lower vasopressin production and a smaller circadian amplitude in depression, which may explain the sleeping problems in this disorder and may contribute to the strong CRH activation. The hypothalamo-pituitary thyroid (HPT)-axis is inhibited in depression. These hypothalamic peptidergic systems, i.e., the HPA-axis, the SCN, the SON and the HPT-axis, have many interactions with aminergic systems that are also implicated in depression. CRH neurons are strongly activated in depressed patients, and so is their HPA-axis, at all levels, but the individual variability is large. It is hypothesized that particularly a subgroup of CRH neurons that projects into the brain is activated in depression and induces the symptoms of this disorder. On the other hand, there is also a lot of evidence for a direct involvement of glucocorticoids in the etiology and symptoms of depression. Although there is a close association between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of CRH and alterations in the HPA-axis in depression, much of the CRH in CSF is likely to be derived from sources other than the PVN. Furthermore, a close interaction between the HPA-axis and the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG)-axis exists. Organizing effects during fetal life as well as activating effects of sex hormones on the HPA-axis have been reported. Such mechanisms may be a basis for the higher prevalence of mood disorders in women as compared to men. In addition, the stress system is affected by changing levels of sex hormones, as found, e.g., in the premenstrual period, ante- and postpartum, during the transition phase to the menopause and during the use of oral contraceptives. In depressed women, plasma levels of estrogen are usually lower and plasma levels of androgens are increased, while testosterone levels are decreased in depressed men. This is explained by the fact that both in depressed males and females the HPA-axis is increased in activity, parallel to a diminished HPG-axis, while the major source of androgens in women is the adrenal, whereas in men it is the testes. It is speculated, however, that in the etiology of depression the relative levels of sex hormones play a more important role than their absolute levels. Sex hormone replacement therapy indeed seems to improve mood in elderly people and AD patients. Studies of rats have shown that high levels of cumulative corticosteroid exposure and rather extreme chronic stress induce neuronal damage that selectively affects hippocampal structure. Studies performed under less extreme circumstances have so far provided conflicting data. The corticosteroid neurotoxicity hypothesis that evolved as a result of these initial observations is, however, not supported by clinical and experimental observations. In a few recent postmortem studies in patients treated with corticosteroids and patients who had been seriously and chronically depressed no indications for AD neuropathology, massive cell loss, or loss of plasticity could be found, while the incidence of apoptosis was extremely rare and only seen outside regions expected to be at risk for steroid overexposure. In addition, various recent experimental studies using good stereological methods failed to find massive cell loss in the hippocampus following exposure to stress or steroids, but rather showed adaptive and reversible changes in structural parameters after stress. Thus, the HPA-axis in AD is only moderately activated, possibly due to the initial (primary) hippocampal degeneration in this condition. There are no convincing arguments to presume a causal, primary role for cortisol in the pathogenesis of AD. Although cortisol and CRH may well be causally involved in the signs and symptoms of depression, there is so far no evidence for any major irreversible damage in the human hippocampus in this disorder.
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- Dick F Swaab
- Netherlands Institute for Brain Research, Meibergdreef 33, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Pryce CR, Dettling A, Spengler M, Spaete C, Feldon J. Evidence for altered monoamine activity and emotional and cognitive disturbance in marmoset monkeys exposed to early life stress. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2005; 1032:245-9. [PMID: 15677420 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1314.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In common marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus, order Primates), infants aged 2-28 days were deprived of parental care for 30-120 min/day in order to investigate the long-term effects of this neglect-stress model on affect and cognition in a primate species. Basal morning levels of urinary cortisol across the first year of life were unaffected in early deprived marmosets relative to their sibling controls. Basal morning levels of urinary dopamine were chronically increased. This peripheral increase in dopamine activity could represent a marker for central dopamine hyperactivity. Certainly, subadult early deprived marmosets exhibited performance deficits in two dopamine-regulated neuropsychological tasks. They demonstrated: (1) impaired behavioral inhibition in an object reaching with detour task, exhibiting significantly more nonreinforced forward reaches to a reward visible inside a cube that could only be retrieved through an opening to the side of the cube; and (2) impaired reversal learning in a two-way discrimination task based on visual icons presented on a touch-sensitive computer screen. These findings provide further evidence for the relevance of this novel primate model of parent-infant neglect to the environmental causes and mechanisms of human developmental psychopathology.
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- Christopher R Pryce
- Behavioral Neurobiology Laboratory, Swiss Federal institute of Technology, Zurich, Schorenstrasse 16, CH-8603 Schwerzenbach, Switzerland.
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Roth TL, Sullivan RM. Memory of early maltreatment: neonatal behavioral and neural correlates of maternal maltreatment within the context of classical conditioning. Biol Psychiatry 2005; 57:823-31. [PMID: 15820702 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2005.01.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 142] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/17/2004] [Revised: 12/15/2004] [Accepted: 01/13/2005] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND While children form an attachment to their abusive caregiver, they are susceptible to mental illness and brain abnormalities. To understand this important clinical issue, we have developed a rat animal model of abusive attachment where odor paired with shock paradoxically produces an odor preference. Here, we extend this model to a seminaturalistic paradigm using a stressed, "abusive" mother during an odor presentation and assess the underlying learning neural circuit. METHODS We used a classical conditioning paradigm pairing a novel odor with a stressed mother that predominantly abused pups to assess olfactory learning in a seminaturalistic environment. Additionally, we used Fos protein immunohistochemistry to assess brain areas involved in learning this pain-induced odor preference within a more controlled maltreatment environment (odor-shock conditioning). RESULTS Odor-maternal maltreatment pairings within a seminatural setting and odor-shock pairings both resulted in paradoxical odor preferences. Learning-induced gene expression was altered in the olfactory bulb and anterior piriform cortex (part of olfactory cortex) but not the amygdala. CONCLUSIONS Infants appear to use a unique brain circuit that optimizes learned odor preferences necessary for attachment. A fuller understanding of infant brain function may provide insight into why early maltreatment affects psychiatric well-being.
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- Tania L Roth
- Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA.
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The discovery that the adult mammalian brain creates new neurons from pools of stemlike cells was a breakthrough in neuroscience. Interestingly, this particular new form of structural brain plasticity seems specific to discrete brain regions, and most investigations concern the subventricular zone (SVZ) and the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampal formation (HF). Overall, two main lines of research have emerged over the last two decades: the first aims to understand the fundamental biological properties of neural stemlike cells (and their progeny) and the integration of the newly born neurons into preexisting networks, while the second focuses on understanding its relevance in brain functioning, which has been more extensively approached in the DG. Here, we propose an overview of the current knowledge on adult neurogenesis and its functional relevance for the adult brain. We first present an analysis of the methodological issues that have hampered progress in this field and describe the main neurogenic sites with their specificities. We will see that despite considerable progress, the levels of anatomic and functional integration of the newly born neurons within the host circuitry have yet to be elucidated. Then the intracellular mechanisms controlling neuronal fate are presented briefly, along with the extrinsic factors that regulate adult neurogenesis. We will see that a growing list of epigenetic factors that display a specificity of action depending on the neurogenic site under consideration has been identified. Finally, we review the progress accomplished in implicating neurogenesis in hippocampal functioning under physiological conditions and in the development of hippocampal-related pathologies such as epilepsy, mood disorders, and addiction. This constitutes a necessary step in promoting the development of therapeutic strategies.
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- Djoher Nora Abrous
- Laboratoire de Physiopathologie des Comportements, Institut National de la Sané et de la Recherche Médicale, U588, Université de Bordeaux, France.
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Improved methods of assessment and research design have established a robust and causal association between stressful life events and major depressive episodes. The chapter reviews these developments briefly and attempts to identify gaps in the field and new directions in recent research. There are notable shortcomings in several important topics: measurement and evaluation of chronic stress and depression; exploration of potentially different processes of stress and depression associated with first-onset versus recurrent episodes; possible gender differences in exposure and reactivity to stressors; testing kindling/sensitization processes; longitudinal tests of diathesis-stress models; and understanding biological stress processes associated with naturally occurring stress and depressive outcomes. There is growing interest in moving away from unidirectional models of the stress-depression association, toward recognition of the effects of contexts and personal characteristics on the occurrence of stressors, and on the likelihood of progressive and dynamic relationships between stress and depression over time-including effects of childhood and lifetime stress exposure on later reactivity to stress.
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- Constance Hammen
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
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de Kloet ER, Sibug RM, Helmerhorst FM, Schmidt MV, Schmidt M. Stress, genes and the mechanism of programming the brain for later life. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 2005; 29:271-81. [PMID: 15811498 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2004] [Revised: 10/07/2004] [Accepted: 10/13/2004] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Adverse conditions during early life are a risk factor for stress-related diseases such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). How this long-term effect of early adversity occurs is not known, although evidence accumulates that the action of stress hormones is an important determinant. In rodents after a variety of experiences, even minor ones, during postnatal life permanent changes in emotional and neuroendocrine reactivity have been observed. Also stressful events occurring prenatally and even the pre-implantation hormonal conditions can have permanent consequences. Here we will focus on evidence obtained from (i) the blastocyst implantation during conditions of ovarian hyperstimulation, which is commonly used in the generation of transgenic mice; (ii) the stress system activity in the newborn under various conditions of maternal care; (iii) the long-term consequences of maternal separation procedures. The results clearly demonstrate that early experiences trigger immediate changes in the stress system that may permanently alter brain and behaviour.
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- E Ronald de Kloet
- Department of Medical Pharmacology, Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research and Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9502, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Both structure and function of the hippocampus are altered by stress: by increasing levels of corticosteroids, stress causes atrophy of CA3 pyramidal cell dendrites, inhibits adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus, and impairs hippocampus-dependent learning. A recent study shows that adverse experience limited to early life, specifically removal of rat pups from their mother for three hours each day, decreases production of new granule neurons in adulthood through a corticosteroid-dependent mechanism. This finding suggests that stress in early life could permanently impair hippocampus-dependent learning and memory and increase susceptibility to depression by inhibiting adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus.
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- Yashmin J G Karten
- Unit on Neuroplasticity 35/3C915, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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