Towards the study of functional brain development in depression: an Interactive Specialization approach.
Depression is a significant and impairing mood disorder with onset possible as early as age 3 and into adulthood. Given this varying pattern of age of onset, identifying the relationship between brain development and depression across the lifespan has proven elusive. This review identifies some of the factors that may have limited the advancement of our knowledge in this area and discusses how synthesizing established models of depression and normative brain development may help to overcome them. More specifically, it is suggested that current neurobiological models of depression fail to account for the developmental variance associated with early neural network development and the potential influence of experience on this process. The utility of applying an established framework of normative brain development to this topic is described and its potential utility for conceptualizing the influence of depression on brain function across the life span is addressed. Future directions including longitudinal neuroimaging studies of early onset depression and groups at risk for this disorder are proposed.
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- Neurology & Neurosurgery
- Nerve Net
- Models, Neurological
- Humans
- Depressive Disorder
- Brain
- 3209 Neurosciences
- 3101 Biochemistry and cell biology
- 1109 Neurosciences
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Published In
DOI
EISSN
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Publication Date
Volume
Start / End Page
Related Subject Headings
- Neurology & Neurosurgery
- Nerve Net
- Models, Neurological
- Humans
- Depressive Disorder
- Brain
- 3209 Neurosciences
- 3101 Biochemistry and cell biology
- 1109 Neurosciences
- 1103 Clinical Sciences