Pariante Carmine M, Lightman Stafford L
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, Division of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, London, UK.
Trends Neurosci. 2008 Sep;31(9):464-8. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2008.06.006. Epub 2008 Jul 31.
Studies over the last 40 years have demonstrated that hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is one of the most consistent biological findings in major depression psychiatry, but the mechanisms underlying this abnormality are still unclear.
过去40年的研究表明,下丘脑-垂体-肾上腺轴功能亢进是重度抑郁症精神病学中最一致的生物学发现之一,但这种异常背后的机制仍不清楚。