Aug 2026· European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry· 0 citations· 35 references
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This study investigated the neural and molecular bases of individual differences in adolescent MDD patients by integrating a novel edge-centric brain connectome with transcriptomic and neurotransmitter profiles, and identified two robust adolescent MDD subtypes.
The findings of individual‐level morphological network alterations in depressed patients may corroborate the dysconnectivity hypothesis of MDD and could further inform its more accurate diagnosis.
Xuetian Sun, Yuhao Shen, Xiao Chen et al.· Human Brain Mapping· 0 citations
This work provides a neurobiological framework which may facilitate the identification of biologically meaningful subtypes of depression, ultimately improving diagnosis and treatment and revealing sex-dependent networks within systemic inflammatory markers, which are in turn linked to sex-specific disease subtypes.
T.-D.-X. Chu, L. Hui, N. Teller et al.· medRxiv· 0 citations
A topologically shifted WM functional connectome structure in adolescent MDD is revealed, providing new clues to aid in understanding the pathophysiology of its pathophysiology.
ECT is associated with selective reorganization of the sensorimotor network rather than normalization of baseline abnormalities and edge-centric connectomics combined with multiscale biological annotations provides a robust framework for characterizing therapeutic mechanisms and developing predictive biomarkers in MDD.
K. Zhang, L. Jiang, R. Li et al.· medRxiv· 0 citations
The results suggested that associations between proinflammatory gut microbiota and the herpes simplex virus type 1 infection pathway may contribute to the onset of MDD through inflammatory processes.
Results indicate that multi-omics integration, in addition to explaining the molecular architecture of MDD, also characterizes patient subgroups with pathophysiological mechanisms, dimensions of symptoms, and disease treatment, which demonstrates that there is a shift in psychiatry toward a more mechanistic approach.
Elham Amjad, B. Sokouti· OBM Neurobiology· 0 citations
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