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ArticlePsychiatry investigation2020

Neuroinflammation, Gut-Brain Axis and Depression.

Alper Evrensel, Barış Önen Ünsalver, Mehmet Emin Ceylan

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Article in Psychiatry investigation, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
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Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alper EvrenselDepartment of Psychiatry, Uskudar University, NP Brain Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Barış Önen ÜnsalverDepartment of Medical Documentation and Secretariat, Vocational School of Health Services, Istanbul, Turkey.
Mehmet Emin CeylanDepartment of Psychology and Philosophy, Uskudar University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Üsküdar University · TRIstanbul University · TR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Psychiatric diseases are the manifestations that result from the individual's genetic structure, physiology, immunology and ways of coping with environmental stressors. The current psychiatric diagnostic systems do not include any systematic characterization in regard to neurobiological processes that reveal the clinical picture in individuals who got psychiatric diagnosis. It is obvious that further research in different areas is needed to understand the psychopathology. The problems in the functions of immune system and the correlation of neuroinflammatory processes with psychiatric disorders have been one of the main research topics of psychiatry in recent years and have contributed to our understanding of psychopathology. Recent advances in the fields of immunology and genetics as well as rapidly increasing knowledge on the effects of immunological processes on brain functions have drawn attention to the correlations between psychiatric disorders and immune system dysfunctions. There are still unfilled gaps in the biology, pathophysiology, and treatment of major depressive disorder, which is quite prevalent among the psychiatric disorders, can lead to significant disability, and frequently has a recurrent course. It appears that low-grade chronic neuroinflammation plays a key role in forming a basis for the interaction between psychological stress, impaired gut microbiota and major depressive disorder. In this review, the role of neuroinflammation in the etiopathogenesis of depression and the mechanism of action of the gut-brain axis that leads to this are discussed in the light of current studies.

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DepressionGut-brain axisImmune systemMicrobiotaNeuroinflammation

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PMID31587531
PMCPMC6992852
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