Table of Contents

1: Lewis Wolpert: Experiencing depression
2: Monica Kelly Cowles, Carmine Pariante & Charles B Nemeroff: Depression in the medically ill
3: Randolph M Nesse: Explaining depression: neuroscience is not enough, evolution is essential
4: Bernard J Crespi: Evolutionary genetics of affective disorders
5: Stephan Claes, Elisabeth B Binder & Charles B Nemeroff: Genetic factors in stress and major depression
6: Daniel J Smith, Michael J Owen & Nick Craddock: Bipolar disorder and unipolar depression: what is the genetic relationship?
7: Becky Conway-Campbell, C C Wiles & Stafford Lightman: The significance of dysregulated basal glucocorticoid pulsatility in affective disorders
8: Caitlin S Wyrwoll, Megan C Holmes & Jonathan R Seckl: Early life programming of affective function
9: Sabine Chourbaji & Peter Gass: Modeling depression by GR mutant animals?
10: Robert Dantzer, Jason C O'Connor, Nathalie Castanon, Jacques Lestage & Keith W Kelley: Cytokines and depression: experimental evidence and intermediate mechanisms
11: Paul Lucassen, Peter Meerlo, A S Naylor, A M van Dam, A G Dayer, B Czeh & C A Oomen: Do depression, stress, sleep disruption and inflammation alter hippocampal apoptosis and neurogenesis?
12: Steven F Maier, Jose Amat, Michael V Baratta, Sondra T Bland, John C Christianson, Brittany Thompson, Robert R Rozeske & Linda R Watkins: The role of the medial prefrontal cortex in mediating resistance and vulnerability to the impact of adverse events
13: Philip J Cowen & C J Harmer: Is it all monoamines?
14: Nicole Geschwind, Jim van Os, Frenk Peeters & Marieke Wichers: The role of affective processing in vulnerability to and resilience against depression
15: Elizabeth Young: PTSD and HPA axis: same hormones, different disorders
16: Timothy G Dinan & Peter Fitzgerald: Neuroendocrine and immune cross talk in major depression
17: Andrew H Miller, Thaddeus W W Pace & Charles I Raison: Neuropsychiatric effects of IFN-alpha: relevance to depression
18: Andrew Steptoe: Depression and coronary heart disease
19: Tony Cleare: Does depression induce pain and fatigue?
20: Matthew Hotopf & Max Henderson: Explaining the association between depression and mortality: a life course epidemiology approach
21: Allan H Young: Depression: unipolar or bipolar, what's the difference (and what does it matter anyway)?
22: Matthew T Keener & Mary L Phillips: Can neuroimaging help distinguish bipolar depression from major depressive disorder?
23: Bhanu Gupta, Robert Keers, Rudolf Uher, Peter McGuffin & Katherine J Aitchison: Pharmacogenetics of antidepressant response
24: R Hamish McAllister-Williams & Grzegorz Wisniewski: Can the EEG be used to predict antidepressant response?
25: Thomas E Schlaepfer & Bettina Bewernick: Can we use magnetic/electric fields to help in treatment resistant depression?
26: Sarah E Gartside, K S Reid & I Nicol Ferrier: Antiglucocorticoids in the treatment of affective disorders: from pre-clinical to clinical studies
27: David Nutt & Christoher A Lowry: How can we use current knowledge to improve antidepressant treatments?