Background Major depressive disorder is a chronic illness with a higher incidence in
women. Dysregulated neural oscillatory activity is an emerging mechanism thought to …

Chronic psychosocial stress is a well-established risk factor for neuropsychiatric diseases.
Abnormalities in brain activity have been demonstrated in patients with stress-related …

Stress enhances the risk for psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and depression. Stress
responses vary across sex and may underlie the heightened vulnerability to …

The perception of control over a stressful experience may determine its impacts and
generate resistance against future stressors. Although the medial prefrontal cortex (PFC) …

Stress exposure has been shown to induce a variety of molecular and functional alterations
associated with anxiety and depression. Some studies suggest that microglia, the immune …

Emotional behavior and psychological disorders are expressed through coordinated
interactions across multiple brain regions. Brain electrophysiological signals are composed …

Emotional stress responses, encompassing both stress reactivity and regulation, have been
shown to differ between men and women, but the neural networks supporting these …

Posttraumatic stress disorder and major depression share stress as an etiological
contributor and are more common in women than in men. Traditionally, preclinical studies …

There is accumulating evidence that stress triggers specific temporal patterns of
morphological plasticity in the amygdala, a brain area that plays a pivotal role in the …

Epidemiologic studies have shown that the prevalence of stress-related mood disorders is
higher in women, which suggests a different response of neuroendocrine circuits involved in …