Dorit Ben-Shachar
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Lucki A, Klein E, Karry R, Ben-Shachar D
J Neural Transm (Vienna)
. 2013 Oct;
121(3):289-98.
PMID: 24132698
Antidepressant medication is the standard treatment for major depression disorder (MDD). However, the response to these treatments is often incomplete and many patients remain refractory. In the present study, we...
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Asor E, Belhanes H, Kavushansky A, Zubedat S, Klein E, Avital A, et al.
Psychoneuroendocrinology
. 2013 May;
38(10):2173-83.
PMID: 23669323
Background: It is currently accepted that complex behavior and mental disorder results from a combination of biological susceptibility and exposure to environmental stimuli. Most of the gene-environment interaction models focus...
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Kavushansky A, Kritman M, Maroun M, Klein E, Richter-Levin G, Hui K, et al.
Eur Neuropsychopharmacol
. 2013 Jan;
23(12):1779-88.
PMID: 23352317
Reactivity to traumatic stress varies between individuals and only a minority of those exposed to trauma develops stress-induced psychopathologies. Currently extensive effort is made to unravel the specific mechanisms predisposing...
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Smolin B, Karry R, Gal-Ben-Ari S, Ben-Shachar D
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol
. 2011 Oct;
15(7):869-82.
PMID: 22008100
Evidence concerning ion-channel abnormalities in the pathophysiology of common psychiatric disorders is still limited. Given the significance of ion channels in neuronal activity, neurotransmission and neuronal plasticity we hypothesized that...
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Rosenfeld M, Brenner-Lavie H, Ari S, Kavushansky A, Ben-Shachar D
Biol Psychiatry
. 2011 Mar;
69(10):980-8.
PMID: 21397211
Background: Mitochondria have been suggested to be involved in the pathology of bipolar disorder (BD) and schizophrenia. However, the mechanism underlying mitochondrial dysfunction is unclear. Mitochondrial network dynamics, which reflects...
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Agam G, Ben-Shachar D
Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci
. 2010 Aug;
47(1):2-3.
PMID: 20686194
No abstract available.
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Silberberg G, Ben-Shachar D, Navon R
Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet
. 2010 Jul;
153B(7):1318-28.
PMID: 20645313
Nitric oxide (NO) is a neurotransmitter that acts as a second messenger of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor and interacts with the dopaminergic and the serotonergic systems. NO involvement in pathological processes...
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Yaniv S, Lucki A, Klein E, Ben-Shachar D
Eur J Cell Biol
. 2010 Jul;
89(9):712-22.
PMID: 20605057
Norepinephrine (NE) and glucocorticoids (GCs) have been shown to oppositely affect various aspects of neuronal plasticity. These findings provided the basis for the plasticity hypothesis of major depression, which suggests...
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Kavushansky A, Ben-Shachar D, Richter-Levin G, Klein E
Stress
. 2009 Nov;
12(5):412-25.
PMID: 19929444
Stressors differ in their physiological and behavioral outcomes. One of the major mechanisms by which stressors affect the brain and behavior is alteration in neuronal plasticity. We investigated in the...
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Chertkow-Deutsher Y, Cohen H, Klein E, Ben-Shachar D
Int J Neuropsychopharmacol
. 2009 Oct;
13(3):347-59.
PMID: 19793403
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is unique among psychiatric disorders since there is an explicit requirement for the presence of a well-defined precipitating environmental event. This suggests the participation of adaptable...