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ReviewIBRO reports2018

How could stress lead to major depressive disorder?

Gal Richter-Levin, Lin Xu

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Review in IBRO reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 60 papers.

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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

60 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Lifetime adversity exposure, mood symptoms, and immune mitochondrial bioenergetics.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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  13. Ketamine Reverses Chronic Stress-Induced Behavioral Changes via the Expression of CaFASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2025
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  19. Mediodorsal thalamus projection to medial prefrontal cortical mediates social defeat stress-induced depression-like behaviors.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Gal Richter-LevinDepartment of Neurobiology and Ethology, Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel.
Lin XuKey Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms, Lab of Learning and Memory, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stress is associated with major depressive disorder (MDD), but the underlying mechanism remains elusive. However, some experiences, referred to as stress, may actually lead to resilience. It is thus critical first to define what type of stress may lead to MDD. Long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) are both sensitive to stress, but particularly to inescapable and not escapable stress. Thus, these are the psychological aspects of stress which contribute to the development of MDD, but by which mechanisms remains still elusive. Interestingly, the same stress may facilitate LTD and impair LTP in the CA1 region. In addition, repeated efforts are often required for learning under neutral conditions but single- or few learning trials are sufficient for forming stress-related memories. If LTP is crucial for normal learning, a combination of limited LTP and facilitated LTD appears to have higher efficiency for storing stress-related memories. Chronic psychological stress may cause a hyper-link among stress-related memories across the spatiotemporal due to shared quality of inescapability, leading to automatically negative appraisal through memory generalization mechanisms in MDD patients when encountering new distinct events which are perceived to share such similarity with previous experiences.

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Major depressive disorderMemoryStress

Identifiers

PMID30155523
PMCPMC6111061

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