ArticleCells2023
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reduces Depressive-like Behaviors, Modifies Dendritic Plasticity, and Generates Global Epigenetic Changes in the Frontal Cortex and Hippocampus in a Rodent Model of Chronic Stress.
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- Status and trends in transcranial magnetic stimulation research: a bibliometric analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
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- Potential Epigenetic Mechanisms of High-Frequency rTMS in the Treatment of Major Depression: A Brief Report of Current Evidence.Noro psikiyatri arsivi · 2026Article
- Prolonged 5-week and 12-week chronic stress differentially modulates CNS expression of pro- and anti-neuroinflammatory biomarkers, brain monoamines and affective behavior in adult zebrafish.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2025Article
- The Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Parameter Discussion: A Meta-Analysis Based on Randomized Controlled Trials.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2025Review
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- New perspective on sustained antidepressant effect: focus on neurexins regulating synaptic plasticity.Cell death discovery · 2024Review
- Epigenome Defines Aberrant Brain Laterality in Major Mental Illnesses.Brain sciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
Depression is the most common affective disorder worldwide, accounting for 4.4% of the global population, a figure that could increase in the coming decades. In depression, there exists a reduction in the availability of dendritic spines in the frontal cortex (FC) and hippocampus (Hp). In addition, histone modification and DNA methylation are also dysregulated epigenetic mechanisms in depression. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a technique that is used to treat depression. However, the epigenetic mechanisms of its therapeutic effect are still not known. Therefore, in this study, we evaluated the antidepressant effect of 5 Hz rTMS and examined its effect on dendritic remodeling, immunoreactivity of synapse proteins, histone modification, and DNA methylation in the FC and Hp in a model of chronic mild stress. Our data indicated that stress generated depressive-like behaviors and that rTMS reverses this effect, romotes the formation of dendritic spines, and favors the presynaptic connection in the FC and DG (dentate gyrus), in addition to increasing histone H3 trimethylation and DNA methylation. These results suggest that the antidepressant effect of rTMS is associated with dendritic remodeling, which is probably regulated by epigenetic mechanisms. These data are a first approximation of the impact of rTMS at the epigenetic level in the context of depression. Therefore, it is necessary to analyze in future studies as to which genes are regulated by these mechanisms, and how they are associated with the neuroplastic modifications promoted by rTMS.
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