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A biological perspective on differences and similarities between burnout and depression

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Orosz, Ariane, Federspiel, Andrea, Haisch, Sarie, Seeher, Christian, Dierks, Thomas, Cattapan, Katja·2017·Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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To compare and contrast burnout and depression is not only a conceptual issue, but may deliver important directions for treatment approaches and stabilize the awareness of disease which is essential for affected individuals. Because of the symptomatic overlap, it is a subject of multidimensional research and discussion to find specific signatures to differentiate between the two phenomena or to present evidence that they are different aspects of the same disorder. Both pathologies are regarded as stress-related disorders. Therefore, in this review burnout and depression are discussed on the basis of biological parameters, mainly heart rate variability (HRV) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which are crucial to the stress response system. It emerges that instead of finding one specific discriminating marker, future research should rather concentrate on elaborating indices for burnout and depression which integrate combinations of parameters found in genetics, neurobiology, physiology and environment.

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Authors
Orosz, A., Federspiel, A., Haisch, S., Seeher, C., Dierks, T., & Cattapan, K.
Affiliations
  • University of Bern (CH)
  • Sanatorium Kilchberg (CH)
Corresponding author
Orosz, Ariane
Venue
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-02
Volume
73
Pages
112-122
ISSN
0149-7634 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2565172665
Cited by
55
References
168
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 5
FWCI
0.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • BORIS (University Library Bern) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Open Access CRIS of the University of Bern
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Stress and Burnout Research
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Occupational Therapy › Occupational Health and Burnout
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
burnout, depression, heart rate variability, brain-derived neurotrophic factor, stress response, biomarkers, stress-related disorders, differential diagnosis, neurobiology of depression
MeSH terms
Anxiety Disorders, Burnout, Professional, Depression, Depressive Disorder, Humans, Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

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