Emilija Glavonic

Depression is one of the most common mental disorders worldwide, and its prevalence sharply rises during adolescence. Adolescence is a particularly sensitive period to the effects of environmental stressors, which...

Fear-related disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and anxiety disorders are pervasive psychiatric conditions marked by persistent fear, stemming from its dysregulated acquisition and extinction. The primary treatment for these...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) afflicts approximately 5 % of the world population, and about 30-50 % of patients who receive classical antidepressant medications do not achieve complete remission (treatment resistant...

Adolescence is a key phase of development for perturbations in fear extinction, with inability to adequately manage fear a potent factor for developing psychiatric disorders in adulthood. However, while behavioral...

Fear-related disorders, mainly phobias and post-traumatic stress disorder, are highly prevalent, debilitating disorders that pose a significant public health problem. They are characterized by aberrant processing of aversive experiences and...

Mitochondrial dysfunction can result from the interplay between elevated inflammatory markers and alterations in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, and can contribute to pathogenesis of major depression. Therefore, in this study we...

Childhood trauma (CT) increases the risk for psychopathology through disturbed acquisition and extinction of fear. The effects of CT are mediated by abnormalities of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and glucocorticoid receptor...