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Efficacy of electroconvulsive therapy is associated with changing blood levels of homovanillic acid and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in refractory depressed patients: A pilot study

Tatsuya Okamoto, Reiji Yoshimura, Atsuko Ikenouchi, Hikaru Hori, Wakako Umene‐Nakano, Yoshiaki Inoue, Nobuhisa Ueda, Jun Nakamura

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry · 2008 · 98 citations · 46 references

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Cross-National Epidemiology of Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder

Myrna M. Weissman · JAMA · 1996 · 2.2K citations

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Regulation of BDNF and trkB mRNA in rat brain by chronic electroconvulsive seizure and antidepressant drug treatments

Masashi Nibuya, Shigeru Morinobu, R. S. Duman · Journal of Neuroscience · 1995 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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Transport of brain-derived neurotrophic factor across the blood–brain barrier

Weihong Pan, William A. Banks, Melita B. Fasold et al. · Neuropharmacology · 1998 · 1.3K citations

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Decreased serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in major depressed patients

Félicien Karege, Guillaume Perret, Guido Bondolfi et al. · Psychiatry Research · 2002 · 1.2K citations

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Alterations of serum levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) in depressed patients with or without antidepressants

Eiji Shimizu, Kenji Hashimoto, Naoe Okamura et al. · Biological Psychiatry · 2003 · 1.1K citations

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