The experience of chronic stress plays an important role in the pathogenesis of major depressive disorder. Prolonged stress induces a state of chronically elevated glucocorticoid exposure in the brain, which is neurotoxic ...

Stress is an important risk factor for the development of clinical depression, yet little is known about the neurobiological mechanisms by which stress might promote depressive symptomatology. The brain is particularly ...

Stress and depression are popular and powerful terms within the mental health field. Although the relation between the two terms has been discussed and investigated in lay and scientific discourse, less is known about how ...