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Glucocorticoid receptor gene modulates severity of depression in women with crack cocaine addiction.
European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology - 1 Sept 2016
Rovaris Diego L, Aroche Angelita P, da Silva Bruna S, Kappel Djenifer B, Pezzi Júlio C, Levandowski Mateus L, Hess Adriana R B, Schuch Jaqueline B, de Almeida Rosa M M, Grassi-Oliveira Rodrigo, Bau Claiton H D
Abstract excerpt
Crack cocaine addicted inpatients that present more severe withdrawal symptoms also exhibit higher rates of depressive symptoms. There is strong evidence that the identification of genetic variants in depression is potentialized when reducing phenotypic heterogeneity by studying selected groups. Since depression has been associated to dysregulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, this study evaluated...
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