hippocampus Archives - Gateway Psychiatric Excellent Psychiatric Care Wed, 07 Jul 2021 22:15:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/favicon2.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 hippocampus Archives - Gateway Psychiatric 32 32 70562394 Depression Biology and Treatment https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/depression-biology-treatment/ Wed, 08 Feb 2017 19:32:13 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=12255 New research on depression biology and treatment highlights the rapid increase in knowledge in this area in the last decade. In this post we will summarize some of these research findings briefly. This brief tour will take us to a newly discovered protein that may be a vital link between stress and depression. A genome wide search for changes associated ...

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]]> 12255 Antidepressants Alter Gene Expression https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/antidepressants-alter-gene-expression/ Fri, 22 Jul 2016 20:55:51 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=11225 An interesting study looked at similarities and differences in the effects of two medications that have anti-depressant effects and yet are extremely different in terms of how they work: ketamine and imipramine (a tricyclic antidepressant). This industry supported study looked at the effects of these two agents on a reward circuit (involving the prefrontal cortex (PFC), nucleus accumbens, hippocampus, and amygdala – ...

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]]> 11225 New Antidepressant Stimulates Neuron Growth https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/new-antidepressant-stimulates-neuron-growth/ Sun, 13 Dec 2015 02:48:39 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=9533 The results of a clinical trial published in December in Molecular Psychiatry suggest that a new medication (NSI-189) which has been shown to increase the production of cells in the hippocampus and the amygdala in pre-clinical studies may help treat major depression. The results highlight the evidence that has been accumulating that stimulating the production of new cells in the hippocampus (neurogenesis) ...

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]]> 9533 Brain Morphometry Separates Bipolar vs Unipolar https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/brain-morphometry-separates-bipolar-vs-unipolar/ Tue, 18 Nov 2014 04:06:04 +0000 https://www.gatewaypsychiatric.com/?p=8340 Brain Morphometry refers to a technique for comparing the sizes of different structures in the brain. A new study suggests that using MRI scans of brains it is possible to distinguish between bipolar and unipolar depression with some degree of accuracy (70 – 80% accuracy). The study looked at two separate groups of patients, one from Munster, Germany and one ...

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