A New, Blue Gene Highlights Glutamate and Hippocampus in Depression

作者：Tost Heike; Meyer Lindenberg Andreas^*

来源：Neuron, 2011, 70(2): 171-172.

DOI：10.1016/j.neuron.2011.04.008

Depression is a common and debilitating psychiatric syndrome with a complex risk architecture marked by interacting genetic and environmental factors. In this issue of Neuron, the study by Kohli et al. (2011) reports a novel genome-wide supported risk variant for depression that affects hippocampal gene expression, anatomy, and biochemistry.

• 出版日期2011-4-28
• 单位上海市精神卫生中心