Mounira Banasr

mTOR-Dependent Synapse Formation Underlies the Rapid Antidepressant Effects of NMDA Antagonists

Nanxin Li, Boyoung Lee, Rongjian Liu et al. · Science · 2010 · 2.8K citations · Full text

Glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate Receptor Antagonists Rapidly Reverse Behavioral and Synaptic Deficits Caused by Chronic Stress Exposure

Nanxin Li, Rong-Jian Liu, Jason M. Dwyer et al. · Biological Psychiatry · 2011 · 1.1K citations

Stress Hormone, Psychiatry, Behavioral Neuroscience +15

Decreased expression of synapse-related genes and loss of synapses in major depressive disorder

Hyo Jung Kang, Bhavya Voleti, Tibor Hajszán et al. · Nature Medicine · 2012 · 793 citations · Full text

Synaptic Plasticity, Molecular Neuroscience, Psychiatry +12

Glial Loss in the Prefrontal Cortex Is Sufficient to Induce Depressive-like Behaviors

Mounira Banasr, Ronald S. Duman · Biological Psychiatry · 2008 · 603 citations · Full text

Depressive-like Behaviors, Neuropsychology, Psychopathology +15

Glial pathology in an animal model of depression: reversal of stress-induced cellular, metabolic and behavioral deficits by the glutamate-modulating drug riluzole

Mounira Banasr, Golam M. I. Chowdhury, Rose Z. Terwilliger et al. · Molecular Psychiatry · 2008 · 456 citations · Full text

Stress Hormone, Psychiatry, Behavioral Neuroscience +14