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ReviewCurrent opinion in psychiatry2019

Accelerated aging in serious mental disorders.

Francesco S Bersani, Synthia H Mellon, Victor I Reus, Owen M Wolkowitz

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Review in Current opinion in psychiatry, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Structural MRI-Based Measures of Accelerated Brain Aging do not Moderate the Acute Antidepressant Response in Late-Life Depression.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2022
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  4. Loneliness in older persons with schizophrenia.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2025
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  7. An Update on Neuroaging on Earth and in Spaceflight.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  16. Late-Life Depression is Associated With Increased Levels of GDF-15, a Pro-Aging Mitokine.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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Francesco S BersaniDepartment of Human Neurosciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Synthia H MellonDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, USA.
Victor I ReusDepartment of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.
Owen M WolkowitzDepartment of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences.
Center for Neurosciences · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · US

Funding

Cell Aging in Major DepressionR01MH083784 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI EPEL, ELISSA S., MELLON, SYNTHIA H · 2010 to 2020
$6.7M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH083784
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewClinical, epidemiological, and biological evidence raises the possibility that serious mental disorders (SMDs) are associated with accelerated biological aging. To the extent this is true; SMDs should not simply be considered in terms of mental illness or brain dysfunction, but also as 'whole body' and multisystem illnesses, or else as conditions with significant somatic concomitants. RECENT

findingsThe concept of accelerated biological aging in SMDs is supported by reports of accelerated changes in certain biomarkers normally associated with the aging process. SUMMARY: We define and discuss several proposed biological aging markers that have been examined in SMDs, we review the most recent findings, and we conclude with opinions regarding the merits and meanings of these markers, their usefulness in understanding and treating SMDs, and remaining questions and future directions in this area of research.

Indexed as

Mental DisordersAging, PrematureBiomarkersEpigenesis, GeneticHumansImmunosenescenceLife StyleTelomere ShorteningBiomarkers

Identifiers

PMID31145144
PMCPMC6707774
OpenAlexW2947211541

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