Citation

Zalsman G, Oquendo MA, Greenhill L, Goldberg PH, Kamali M, Martin A, Mann JJ. Child Adolesc. Psychiatr. Clin. N. Am. 2006; 15(4): 843-68, vii-viii.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA. zalsman@post.tau.ac.il

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.chc.2006.05.010

PMID

16952764

Abstract

This article reviews classical and updated studies of the neurobiology of depressive disorders in children and adolescents. Most studies of childhood and adolescent depression and suicide have followed up the observations and methods used in studies in adults. These studies include neuroendocrine studies, which particularly look at the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, the serotonergic system, peripheral blood and cerebrospinal fluid biologic markers, genetics, gene-environment interactions and sleep studies, and neuroimaging and postmortem studies, although in these areas the number of studies is limited.

Language: en