New research highlights neuroglia (or glia cells) as critical players in mental health, potentially influencing conditions like depression and schizophrenia.

Some people will experience only one depressive episode in their life, while others may have depression throughout their ...

Glutamate is what many of the neurons in your ... Chadi Abdallah: When people are stressed for a long time or when they suffer from depression for a while, they start losing these connections ...

The use of general anesthetics show promise in treating depression and mood disorders, based on the results of a novel study.

Depression is considered treatment-resistant ... Ketamine works by blocking a non-monoamine neurotransmitter, glutamate, which influences the activity of all other neurotransmitters.

The potential of ketamine has opened the door to an exciting new era in depression treatment. Researchers are actively investigating the development of other drugs targeting the glutamate system ...

Spravato is the first ketamine-based medicine approved to treat depression, and also the first of a new class of glutamate NMDA receptor-targeting drugs that have ended a decades-long drought at ...

Thus, it was believed that depression precipitated by the loss ... but seemed to be very interested in the glutamate system, where it turns out all of its actions take place.

But depression is not believed to be caused simply ... Multiple neurotransmitters, including norepinephrine, serotonin, glutamate, and GABA, appear to have a part in anxiety disorders, but not ...

The hippocampus and amygdala exhibited disrupted patterns in genes related to the stress response, which might increase ...

depression, and suicidality. We place particular emphasis on the glutamatergic system including neuroenergetics (the study of energy demands in brain function) and the behavioral and neural effects of ...