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ReviewNeuropsychiatric disease and treatment2018

Neuroprogression: the hidden mechanism of depression.

Norma A Labra Ruiz, Daniel Santamaría Del Ángel, Hugo Juárez Olguín, Miroslava Lindoro Silva

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In one paragraph

Review in Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
40citing papers in PubMed
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

40 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Differentiating Between Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  9. The current clinical approach to feeding and eating disorders aimed to increase personalization of management.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025
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  15. Antidepressant Effect and Mechanism ofJournal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2024
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  18. Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024
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  19. [Applications and challenges of wearable electroencephalogram signals in depression recognition and personalized music intervention].Sheng wu yi xue gong cheng xue za zhi = Journal of biomedical engineering = Shengwu yixue gongchengxue zazhi · 2023
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  20. Neuroinflammation: A Modifiable Pathway Linking Obesity, Alzheimer's disease, and Depression.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Norma A Labra RuizLaboratory of Neurosciences, Instituto Nacional de Pediatria (INP), Mexico City, Mexico.
Daniel Santamaría Del ÁngelLaboratory of Neurosciences, Instituto Nacional de Pediatria (INP), Mexico City, Mexico.
Hugo Juárez OlguínLaboratory of Pharmacology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (INP), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico juarezol@yahoo.com.
Miroslava Lindoro SilvaLaboratory of Pharmacology, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría (INP), Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico juarezol@yahoo.com.
Instituto Nacional de Pediatria · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For many years, depressive disorder (DD) was considered a transient and natural disease of people's mood. Its etiology had been attributed mainly to biochemical alterations of the monoamines and their receptors. Nevertheless, its prevalence and considerable impact on the family and social environment of those afflicted by it have placed the disease as a global public health problem. Neuroprogression is the term used to describe the changes in several psychiatric conditions evidenced and observed in the clinical manifestations, biochemical markers, and cerebral structures of the patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), which frequently overlap with neurodegenerative disorders. DD is considered a potentially aggressive state of neuronal deterioration involving apoptosis, reduced neurogenesis, decreased neuronal plasticity, and increased immune response. Clinically, it encompasses a poor response to treatment and an increase in depressive episodes, both of which bring about vulnerability and decline of functions associated with structural changes in the brain. The interest of this work is to review the metabolic processes involved in the morphologic alterations in the limbic system reported in patients with MDD, as well as the neurologic bases of this complex pathology that include environmental stress, genetic vulnerability, alterations in the neurotransmission, and changes in the neuroplasticity, all of which today bring into limelight a mechanism of progressive neuronal damage.

Indexed as

depressive disordermonoaminesneuroendocrineneuroprogression

Identifiers

PMID30464468
PMCPMC6214587
OpenAlexW2898691989

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