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ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2021

Are Noradrenergic Transmission Reducing Drugs Antidepressants?

Paul J Fitzgerald

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Article in Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 63% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Its Modulation by Monoaminergic Neurotransmitters in Depression.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
    Review
  2. Involvement of Anti-Inflammatory and Stress Oxidative Markers in the Antidepressant-like Activity ofEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Paul J FitzgeraldDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Major depressive disorder (MDD) remains a significant public health problem worldwide, and revised treatment strategies are therefore urgently needed, including the creation of novel antidepressant compounds or using existing molecular entities in new ways. Etiologic theories of MDD from decades ago have suggested that synaptic deficiencies of monoaminergic neurotransmitters play a causative role in this neuropsychiatric disorder, and that boosting monoamines with drugs such as SSRIs, SNRIs, TCAs, and MAOIs has antidepressant effects and in some individuals can even induce hypomania or mania. While other factors, such as various intracellular molecular pathways and hippocampal neurogenesis, undoubtedly also play a role in MDD, monoaminergic boosting drugs nonetheless have clearly demonstrated antidepressant properties. There is also, however, a body of studies in the preclinical literature suggesting that monoaminergic transmission

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PMID34658805
PMCPMC8514666
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