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ReviewJournal of molecular biology2014

Epigenetic signaling in psychiatric disorders.

Catherine J Peña, Rosemary C Bagot, Benoit Labonté, Eric J Nestler

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Review in Journal of molecular biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

84 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early-life stress.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Catherine J PeñaFishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Rosemary C BagotFishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Benoit LabontéFishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
Eric J NestlerFishberg Department of Neuroscience and Friedman Brain Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address: eric.nestler@mssm.edu.

Funding

TRANSGENIC COREP01DA008227 · NIDA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI NESTLER, ERIC J. · 1993 to 2018
$28.1M
REPRESSIVE HISTONE AND DNA METHYLATION IN RODENT DEPRESSION MODELSP50MH096890 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI TAMMINGA, CAROL A · 2012 to 2021
$20.2M
MOLECULAR STUDIES OF COCAINE ACTION IN BRAINR37DA007359 · NIDA · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI NESTLER, ERIC J. · 1996 to 2020
$6.9M
NIDA NIH HHS P01 DA008227NIDA NIH HHS R37 DA007359NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH096890
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psychiatric disorders are complex multifactorial illnesses involving chronic alterations in neural circuit structure and function. While genetic factors are important in the etiology of disorders such as depression and addiction, relatively high rates of discordance among identical twins clearly indicate the importance of additional mechanisms. Environmental factors such as stress or prior drug exposure are known to play a role in the onset of these illnesses. Such exposure to environmental insults induces stable changes in gene expression, neural circuit function, and ultimately behavior, and these maladaptations appear distinct between developmental and adult exposures. Increasing evidence indicates that these sustained abnormalities are maintained by epigenetic modifications in specific brain regions. Indeed, transcriptional dysregulation and associated aberrant epigenetic regulation is a unifying theme in psychiatric disorders. Aspects of depression and addiction can be modeled in animals by inducing disease-like states through environmental manipulations (e.g., chronic stress, drug administration). Understanding how environmental factors recruit the epigenetic machinery in animal models reveals new insight into disease mechanisms in humans.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticAnimalsBehavior, AddictiveDepressive DisorderHumansHypothalamo-Hypophyseal SystemModels, GeneticPituitary-Adrenal SystemSignal Transductionaddictiondepressionepigeneticspsychiatric disorders

Identifiers

PMID24709417
PMCPMC4177298

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