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Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications
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Major depressive disorder (MDD) was previously hypothesized to be a disease of monoamine deficiency in which low levels of monoamines in the synaptic cleft were believed to underlie depressive symptoms. More recently, however, there has been a paradigm shift toward a neuroplasticity hypothesis of depression in which downstream effects of antidepressants, such as increased neurogenesis, contribute to improvements in cognition and mood. This review takes a top-down approach to assess how changes in behavior and hippocampal-dependent circuits may be attributed to abnormalities at the molecular, structural, and synaptic level. We conclude with a discussion of how antidepressant treatments share a common effect in modulating neuroplasticity and consider outstanding questions and future perspectives.
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“In addition to dysfunctional top-down regulation, altered limbic and intra-hippocampal connectivity has been observed in MDD.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > Learning, Memory, and Mood: Network Changes in Depression
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The Results report greater amygdala–hippocampus and amygdala–caudate-putamen functional connectivity in depressed participants during successful encoding of negative stimuli. The Methods and Results describe connectivity between the amygdala and these regions, not connectivity within the hippocampus; the claim also omits the negative-memory task condition. (LLM, conf=0.88)
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The Discussion section on amygdala–hippocampus/parahippocampus resting-state connectivity reports altered connectivity between these limbic regions in adolescents with MDD. It does not report intra-hippocampal connectivity—that is, connectivity within the hippocampus—so that part of the claim is unsupported. No page number is available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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“We have shown that DG granule neuron number and DG volume were smaller in anterior and mid, but not posterior hippocampus in unmedicated MDD postmortem62.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > A Balancing Act: Cell Death and Survival
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- Not checked yetcites [62] Boldrini M, Santiago AN, Hen R, Dwork AJ, Rosoklija GB, Tamir H, et al. Hippocampal granule neuron number and dentate gyrus volume in antidepressant-treated and untreated major depression. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013;38:1068–77. source
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“Additionally, we found more granule neurons and a larger DG in resilient subjects who were exposed to childhood adversity but had no lifetime psychiatric diagnosis and died from natural causes63.”
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- Not checked yetcites [63] Boldrini M, Galfalvy H, Dwork AJ, Rosoklija GB, Trencevska-Ivanovska I, Pavlovski G, et al. Resilience is associated with larger dentate gyrus, while suicide decedents with major depressive disorder have fewer granule neurons. Biol Psychiatry. 2019;85:850–62. source
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“However, our group and others have shown evidence of neurogenesis throughout adulthood using double immunofluorescence98-101, in situ hybridization102 and 14C decay-defined neuronal age103.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > A role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression pathology?
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“In postmortem human brain, we found fewer neural progenitor cells and mature granular neurons in unmedicated depressed subjects, selectively in anterior DG, compared with non-psychiatric sudden death controls, suggesting that neurogenesis may be blunted in MDD62, 63.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > A role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression pathology?
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- Not checked yetcites [62] Boldrini M, Santiago AN, Hen R, Dwork AJ, Rosoklija GB, Tamir H, et al. Hippocampal granule neuron number and dentate gyrus volume in antidepressant-treated and untreated major depression. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013;38:1068–77. source
- Not checked yetcites [63] Boldrini M, Galfalvy H, Dwork AJ, Rosoklija GB, Trencevska-Ivanovska I, Pavlovski G, et al. Resilience is associated with larger dentate gyrus, while suicide decedents with major depressive disorder have fewer granule neurons. Biol Psychiatry. 2019;85:850–62. source
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“We found that antidepressant treatment is associated with more neural progenitor cells and granule neurons in postmortem human DG in MDD compared with non-MDD sudden death controls.”
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- Not checked yetcites [62] Boldrini M, Santiago AN, Hen R, Dwork AJ, Rosoklija GB, Tamir H, et al. Hippocampal granule neuron number and dentate gyrus volume in antidepressant-treated and untreated major depression. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013;38:1068–77. source
- Not checked yetcites [121] Duman RS, Nakagawa S, Malberg J. Regulation of adult neurogenesis by antidepressant treatment. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2001;25:836–44. source
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“The hippocampus is of particular importance in understanding depression pathogenesis14-16.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Liu B, Liu J, Wang M, Zhang Y, Li L. From serotonin to neuroplasticity: evolvement of theories for major depressive disorder. Front Cell Neurosci. 2017;11:305. source
- Not checked yetcites [15] Price RB, Duman R. Neuroplasticity in cognitive and psychological mechanisms of depression: an integrative model. Mol Psychiatry. 2020;25:530–43. source
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“Within the same patient, there is no consistency of severity of individual symptoms, symptom components or factors across successive episodes of major depression32.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > Learning, Memory, and Mood: Network Changes in Depression
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- Not checked yetcites [32] Oquendo MA, Barrera A, Ellis SP, Li S, Burke AK, Grunebaum M, et al. Instability of symptoms in recurrent major depression: a prospective study. Am J Psychiatry. 2004;161:255–61. source
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“Second, the hippocampus is one of the few brain regions thought to be capable of adult neurogenesis19, 20.”
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- Not checked yetcites [19] Eriksson PS, Perfilieva E, Björk-Eriksson T, Alborn AM, Nordborg C, Peterson DA, et al. Neurogenesis in the adult human hippocampus. Nat Med. 1998;4:1313–7. source
- Not checked yetcites [20] Boldrini M, Fulmore CA, Tartt AN, Simeon LR, Pavlova I, Poposka V, et al. Human hippocampal neurogenesis persists throughout aging. Cell Stem Cell. 2018;22:589–99.e5. source
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“Given its role in neuronal maturation and differentiation75 as well as its neuroprotective effects76, low brain levels of BDNF may affect neuronal viability in MDD.”
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- Not checked yetcites [75] Waterhouse EG, An JJ, Orefice LL, Baydyuk M, Liao GY, Zheng K, et al. BDNF promotes differentiation and maturation of adult-born neurons through GABAergic transmission. J Neurosci. 2012;32:14318–30. source
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“The pathogenesis of cognitive and affective deficits in untreated MDD is not fully elucidated but likely involves abnormalities across multiple brain regions33-35, and includes but is not limited to changes in functional and/or structural connectivity.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > Learning, Memory, and Mood: Network Changes in Depression
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- Not checked yetcites [33] Cao X, Liu Z, Xu C, Li J, Gao Q, Sun N, et al. Disrupted resting-state functional connectivity of the hippocampus in medication-naïve patients with major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord. 2012;141:194–203. source
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The introduction (p. 2) describes abnormalities across a frontolimbic network, and the results (p. 2) report altered structural and functional connectivity in MDD. However, the Patients section (p. 4) includes participants taking psychotropic medication, so the findings do not specifically establish this account for untreated MDD. The paper also does not establish the pathogenesis of cognitive deficits. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Supportedcites [35] Hao ZY, Zhong Y, Ma ZJ, Xu HZ, Kong JY, Wu Z, et al. Abnormal resting-state functional connectivity of hippocampal subfields in patients with major depressive disorder. BMC Psychiatry. 2020;20:71. source
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“A few studies provide evidence that the absence of neurogenesis elicits depressive like symptoms in rodents123, 124, but most studies find that absent neurogenesis is not sufficient to induce a depressive phenotype125 although it is required in mice for the behavioral effects of antidepressants118, 126.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > A role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression pathology?
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- Partly supportedcites [126] Anacker C, Luna VM, Stevens GS, Millette A, Shores R, Jimenez JC, et al. Hippocampal neurogenesis confers stress resilience by inhibiting the ventral dentate gyrus. Nature. 2018;559:98–102. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
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“This suggests an increase in neurogenesis over normal levels that allows a catchup in mature granule neurons in MDD to regain levels seen in controls62, 121.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > Treatment Induced Neuroplasticity
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- Partly supportedcites [62] Boldrini M, Santiago AN, Hen R, Dwork AJ, Rosoklija GB, Tamir H, et al. Hippocampal granule neuron number and dentate gyrus volume in antidepressant-treated and untreated major depression. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013;38:1068–77. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The Results and Discussion (page unavailable) report that antidepressant-treated MDD subjects had granule neuron numbers comparable to controls and higher than untreated subjects in parts of the dentate gyrus. They do not establish that neurogenesis rose above normal levels or caused this apparent catch-up; the authors describe their cross-sectional findings as correlational and preliminary. (LLM, conf=0.88)
- Not checked yetcites [121] Duman RS, Nakagawa S, Malberg J. Regulation of adult neurogenesis by antidepressant treatment. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2001;25:836–44. source
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“Therefore, different study populations may have different proportions of certain mood or cognitive subgroups of depression, explaining conflicting findings and the wide range in incidence of cognitive deficits.”
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“it has been estimated that cognitive deficits affect 20-90% of MDD patients22-27.”
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- Not checked yetcites [22] McIntyre RS, Cha DS, Soczynska JK, Woldeyohannes HO, Gallaugher LA, Kudlow P, et al. Cognitive deficits and functional outcomes in major depressive disorder: determinants, substrates, and treatment interventions. Depress Anxiety. 2013;30:515–27. source
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“Allostatic load is elevated in depression, which is associated with prolonged stress response, including elevated levels of cortisol associated with melancholia5, 21.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > Introduction
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Dahmen B, Puetz VB, Scharke W, von Polier GG, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, Konrad K. Effects of early-life adversity on hippocampal structures and associated HPA axis functions. Dev Neurosci. 2018;40:13–22. source
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“First, the hippocampus plays a critical role in mood regulation, in part, due to its connections with emotion-related brain regions such as amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC)17, 18 as well as its feedback role in regulating the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis.”
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“As such, hippocampal neuroplasticity has been implicated in MDD etiology and antidepressant action.”
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- Rests on an assumption: High concentrations of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors make the hippocampus particularly vulnerable to allostatic load.
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“Furthermore, deficits in memory, attention and executive functioning have been observed in the absence of a current depressive episode28-31 and even in individuals responding well to antidepressant treatment for affective symptoms23, suggesting that cognitive deficits are only partly a state-dependent phenotype in MDD.”
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- Not checked yetcites [23] Conradi HJ, Ormel J, de Jonge P. Presence of individual (residual) symptoms during depressive episodes and periods of remission: a 3-year prospective study. Psychol Med. 2011;41:1165–74. source
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“Consequently, there has been a paradigm shift from a synaptic effect derived from the monoamine hypothesis to a more complex delayed downstream neuroplasticity hypothesis of antidepressant action that involves correcting a deficiency in neurons, processes and synapses that comprise the pathogenesis of depression.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Antidepressant medications are pharmacologically active within hours, but their antidepressant effects are not apparent for weeks after starting treatment.
- Rests on an assumption: Even when antidepressants have meaningful pharmacologic effects, many patients do not improve.
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“In healthy controls, when asked to downregulate emotional responses in the presence of an aversive stimuli, the PFC and ACC were hyperactivated and the amygdala was hypoactivated. When participants were asked to upregulate negative emotions in response to aversive stimuli, both the PFC and amygdala were activated47, suggesting a PFC-dependent cognitive component in emotional regulation in healthy”
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- Not checked yetcites [47] Ochsner KN, Ray RD, Cooper JC, Robertson ER, Chopra S, Gabrieli JD, et al. For better or for worse: neural systems supporting the cognitive down- and up-regulation of negative emotion. Neuroimage. 2004;23:483–99. source
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“The association between DLPFC activity, memory and MDD has not been consistent, as others have reported DLPFC hypoactivity in conjunction with decreased working memory performance41, 42.”
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- Not checked yetcites [41] Elliott R, Baker SC, Rogers RD, O’Leary DA, Paykel ES, Frith CD, et al. Prefrontal dysfunction in depressed patients performing a complex planning task: a study using positron emission tomography. Psychol Med. 1997;27:931–42. source
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“Moreover, in MDD, the extent of hippocampal gray matter volume loss is related to time spent depressed58, 61 and smaller hippocampal volume is associated with worse depression scores.”
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- Not checked yetcites [58] Sheline YI, Wang PW, Gado MH, Csernansky JG, Vannier MW. Hippocampal atrophy in recurrent major depression. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1996;93:3908–13. source
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“This is because BDNF can bind to tropomyosin kinase B (TrkB) receptor which activates the mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway which promotes neuronal growth, proliferation and migration77.”
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- Not checked yetcites [77] Takei N, Nawa H. mTOR signaling and its roles in normal and abnormal brain development. Front Mol Neurosci. 2014;7:28. source
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“Neuroimaging studies have consistently reported DLPFC hypoactivity at rest in unmedicated MDDs37, 38 but DLPFC hyperactivity during working memory tasks39.”
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- Not checked yetcites [37] Baxter LR, Schwartz JM, Phelps ME, Mazziotta JC, Guze BH, Selin CE, et al. Reduction of prefrontal cortex glucose metabolism common to three types of depression. Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1989;46:243–50. source
- Not checked yetcites [38] Soares JC, Mann JJ. The functional neuroanatomy of mood disorders. J Psychiatr Res. 1997;31:393–432. source
- Not checked yetcites [39] Harvey PO, Fossati P, Pochon JB, Levy R, Lebastard G, Lehéricy S, et al. Cognitive control and brain resources in major depression: an fMRI study using the n-back task. Neuroimage. 2005;26:860–9. source
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“One potential process involved in neuronal loss is decreased brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) via histone modifications to the promoter region associated with downregulation of BDNF transcripts73, 74.”
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- Not checked yetcites [73] Lopez JP, Mamdani F, Labonte B, Beaulieu MM, Yang JP, Berlim MT, et al. Epigenetic regulation of BDNF expression according to antidepressant response. Mol Psychiatry. 2013;18:398–9. source
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“Additionally, focus on negative internal stimuli can result in more strongly encoding negative experiences and sustain negative thoughts and expectations, and underly a biased recall of negative relative to other memories in depressed patients.”
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“Variations between hippocampal-amygdala connectivity during resting state and emotional and cognitive tasks suggests that this network is context-dependent and modulated by environmental stimuli and individual emotional state.”
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“Most studies find that untreated depressed patients have smaller hippocampal volume58, 59, neuronal and glial number, and cell size60 compared with non-psychiatric controls.”
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- Not checked yetcites [58] Sheline YI, Wang PW, Gado MH, Csernansky JG, Vannier MW. Hippocampal atrophy in recurrent major depression. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 1996;93:3908–13. source
- Not checked yetcites [59] Luo Y, Cao Z, Wang D, Wu L, Li Y, Sun W, et al. Dynamic study of the hippocampal volume by structural MRI in a rat model of depression. Neurol Sci. 2014;35:1777–83. source
- Not checked yetcites [60] Czéh B, Simon M, Schmelting B, Hiemke C, Fuchs E. Astroglial plasticity in the hippocampus is affected by chronic psychosocial stress and concomitant fluoxetine treatment. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2006;31:1616–26. source
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“For example, in the absence of familial risk, early childhood trauma severity (operationalized via the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire) correlated with amygdala responsiveness and hippocampal volume loss in a group of healthy volunteers, and these associations were not influenced by recent life stress, depression or anxiety scores70.”
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- Not checked yetcites [70] Dannlowski U, Stuhrmann A, Beutelmann V, Zwanzger P, Lenzen T, Grotegerd D, et al. Limbic scars: long-term consequences of childhood maltreatment revealed by functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging. Biol Psychiatry. 2012;71:286–93. source
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“This concept has been demonstrated in an MRI study of PTSD which showed how smaller hippocampal volume predicted risk of PTSD and did not result from the trauma that triggered PTSD71.”
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- Not checked yetcites [71] Xie H, Claycomb Erwin M, Elhai JD, Wall JT, Tamburrino MB, Brickman KR, et al. Relationship of hippocampal volumes and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms over early posttrauma periods. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 2018;3:968–75.
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“Interestingly, there is disagreement over which regions of the hippocampus are smaller in depression. Some find volumetric sparing of CA164 while others report CA1 volume loss61, 65, 66. Some report volume loss selectively in the hippocampal head and others observed volume loss in the hippocampal body67.”
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- Not checked yetcites [64] Liu MN, Pantouw JG, Yang KC, Hu LY, Liou YJ, Lirng JF, et al. Sub-regional hippocampal volumes in first-episode drug-naïve major depression disorder. Neurosci Lett. 2021;763:136178. source
- Not checked yetcites [61] Roddy DW, Farrell C, Doolin K, Roman E, Tozzi L, Frodl T, et al. The hippocampus in depression: more than the sum of its parts? Advanced hippocampal substructure segmentation in depression. Biol Psychiatry. 2019;85:487–97. source
- Not checked yetcites [65] Frodl T, Carballedo A, Frey EM, O’Keane V, Skokauskas N, Morris D, et al. Expression of glucocorticoid inducible genes is associated with reductions in cornu ammonis and dentate gyrus volumes in patients with major depressive disorder. Dev Psychopathol. 2014;26:1209–17. source
- Not checked yetcites [66] Huang Y, Coupland NJ, Lebel RM, Carter R, Seres P, Wilman AH, et al. Structural changes in hippocampal subfields in major depressive disorder: a high-field magnetic resonance imaging study. Biol Psychiatry. 2013;74:62–8. source
- Not checked yetcites [67] Travis S, Coupland NJ, Silversone PH, Huang Y, Fujiwara E, Carter R, et al. Dentate gyrus volume and memory performance in major depressive disorder. J Affect Disord. 2015;172:159–64. source
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“Interestingly, unmedicated adolescents with MDD showed less resting state fMRI (rsfMRI) connectivity between hippocampus and amygdala compared with healthy controls52. This lack of connectivity between hippocampus and amygdala correlated with severity of depression52.”
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- Not checked yetcites [52] Cullen KR, Westlund MK, Klimes-Dougan B, Mueller BA, Houri A, Eberly LE, et al. Abnormal amygdala resting-state functional connectivity in adolescent depression. JAMA Psychiatry. 2014;71:1138–47. source
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“Furthermore, in human and rodent studies, changes to hippocampal circuitry have been associated with early life adversity which suggests an epigenetic mechanism for these changes and MDD pathogenesis53, 54.”
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- Not checked yetcites [53] Turecki G, Meaney MJ. Effects of the social environment and stress on glucocorticoid receptor gene methylation: a systematic review. Biol Psychiatry. 2016;79:87–96. source
- Not checked yetcites [54] Smith KE, Pollak SD. Early life stress and development: potential mechanisms for adverse outcomes. J Neurodev Disord. 2020;12:34. source
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“Currently, reported mechanisms potentially underlying cell loss include, but are not limited to, glutamate/glutamine cycling (see section on Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Neuroplasticity), blunted neurogenesis, decreased neurotrophic factor expression and upregulation of pro-apoptotic pathways72.”
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- Not checked yetcites [72] Banasr M, Dwyer JM, Duman RS. Cell atrophy and loss in depression: reversal by antidepressant treatment. Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2011;23:730–7. source
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“Smaller ACC, DLPFC, medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) and hippocampus were shown in non-depressed individuals with a familial history of depression (first degree relative with MDD diagnosis) exposed to emotional neglect when compared to non-depressed individuals with no familial risk factors but who had been exposed to emotional neglect, suggesting a gene-environment interaction affecting cell”
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- Not checked yetcites [69] Carballedo A, Lisiecka D, Fagan A, Saleh K, Ferguson Y, Connolly G, et al. Early life adversity is associated with brain changes in subjects at family risk for depression. World J Biol Psychiatry. 2012;13:569–78. source
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“Conversely, when patients with MDD were asked to ignore negative stimuli, they failed to recruit the DLPFC which was correlated with amygdala hyperactivity48.”
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- Not checked yetcites [48] Fales CL, Barch DM, Rundle MM, Mintun MA, Snyder AZ, Cohen JD, et al. Altered emotional interference processing in affective and cognitive-control brain circuitry in major depression. Biol Psychiatry. 2008;63:377–84. source
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“The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is responsible for attention, working memory and executive function and is positively correlated with working memory load in healthy controls36.”
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- Not checked yetcites [36] Braver TS, Cohen JD, Nystrom LE, Jonides J, Smith EE, Noll DC. A parametric study of prefrontal cortex involvement in human working memory. Neuroimage. 1997;5:49–62. source
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“During embryonic development in rodents, primitive dentate progenitors from dentate neuroepithelium migrate along the dentate migratory stream to establish the primitive dentate gyrus89, 90. The majority of dentate granule neurons are generated during the first postnatal week90.”
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- Not checked yetcites [89] Urbán N, Guillemot F. Neurogenesis in the embryonic and adult brain: same regulators, different roles. Front Cell Neurosci. 2014;8:396. source
- Not checked yetcites [90] Bayer SA, Altman J. Hippocampal development in the rat: cytogenesis and morphogenesis examined with autoradiography and low-level X-irradiation. J Comp Neurol. 1974;158:55–79. source
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“While 14C decay-defined neuronal age estimates that the human brain adds up to 700 new neurons each day (approx. 0.004% of total DG neurons), resulting in a 1.7% cell turnover annually103”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > A role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression pathology?
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- Not checked yetcites [103] Moreno-Jiménez EP, Terreros-Roncal J, Flor-García M, Rábano A, Llorens-Martín M. Evidences for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in humans. J Neurosci. 2021;41:2541–53. source
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“Humans receiving chemotherapy, which kills proliferating cells (thus blunting neurogenesis), experience cognitive deficits and are more likely to develop depression than cancer patients treated with other therapies128-130.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > A role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression pathology?
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- Not checked yetcites [128] Wen S, Xiao H, Yang Y. The risk factors for depression in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: a systematic review. Support Care Cancer. 2019;27:57–67. source
- Not checked yetcites [129] Wigmore P. The effect of systemic chemotherapy on neurogenesis, plasticity and memory. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2013;15:211–40. source
- Not checked yetcites [130] Christie LA, Acharya MM, Parihar VK, Nguyen A, Martirosian V, Limoli CL. Impaired cognitive function and hippocampal neurogenesis following cancer chemotherapy. Clin Cancer Res. 2012;18:1954–65. source
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“Although less is known about embryonic hippocampal neurogenesis in humans, some studies suggest overlap in developmental timing and molecular signatures between the rodent and human brain91. The switch between developmental neurogenesis and AHN is gradual, and some sequencing studies have demonstrated these two processes share highly similar transcriptional trajectories91.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > A role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression pathology?
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- Not checked yetcites [91] Hochgerner H, Zeisel A, Lönnerberg P, Linnarsson S. Conserved properties of dentate gyrus neurogenesis across postnatal development revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing. Nat Neurosci. 2018;21:290–9. source
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“Some groups have reported absent or minimal hippocampal neurogenesis in the mature brain using double immunofluorescence targeting markers expressed by neuronal cells at different maturational stages95, 96 and single nucleus transcriptomics97.”
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- Not checked yetcites [95] Sorrells SF, Paredes MF, Cebrian-Silla A, Sandoval K, Qi D, Kelley KW, et al. Human hippocampal neurogenesis drops sharply in children to undetectable levels in adults. Nature. 2018;555:377–81. source
- Not checked yetcites [96] Cipriani S, Ferrer I, Aronica E, Kovacs GG, Verney C, Nardelli J, et al. Hippocampal radial glial subtypes and their neurogenic potential in human fetuses and healthy and Alzheimer’s disease adults. Cereb Cortex. 2018;28:2458–78. source
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“Others have argued that these stem cells originated in the ventral hippocampus and migrated dorsally94.”
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- Not checked yetcites [94] Li G, Fang L, Fernández G, Pleasure SJ. The ventral hippocampus is the embryonic origin for adult neural stem cells in the dentate gyrus. Neuron. 2013;78:658–72. source
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“Some have demonstrated that neural stem cells in the adult hippocampal subgranular zone (SGZ) niche are remnants of dentate neuroepithelium92 and this same population of progenitors exclusively contributes to hippocampal neurogenesis throughout development and into adulthood, shifting out of quiescence at different time points93.”
§ Dysregulation of adult hippocampal neuroplasticity in major depression: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications > A role for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in depression pathology?
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- Not checked yetcites [92] Seki T, Sato T, Toda K, Osumi N, Imura T, Shioda S. Distinctive population of Gfap-expressing neural progenitors arising around the dentate notch migrate and form the granule cell layer in the developing hippocampus. J Comp Neurol. 2014;522:261–83. source
- Not checked yetcites [93] Berg DA, Su Y, Jimenez-Cyrus D, Patel A, Huang N, Morizet D, et al. A common embryonic origin of stem cells drives developmental and adult neurogenesis. Cell. 2019;177:654–68.e15. source
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“Deficits in AHN may not only explain the learning and memory deficits in MDD, but also play a role in the selective engagement with negative valence memories, mood regulation and antidepressant response118-122.”
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- Not checked yetcites [118] David DJ, Samuels BA, Rainer Q, Wang JW, Marsteller D, Mendez I, et al. Neurogenesis-dependent and -independent effects of fluoxetine in an animal model of anxiety/depression. Neuron. 2009;62:479–93. source
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- Not checked yetcites [120] Boldrini M, Underwood MD, Hen R, Rosoklija GB, Dwork AJ, John Mann J, et al. Antidepressants increase neural progenitor cells in the human hippocampus. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2009;34:2376–89. source
- Not checked yetcites [121] Duman RS, Nakagawa S, Malberg J. Regulation of adult neurogenesis by antidepressant treatment. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2001;25:836–44. source
- Not checked yetcites [122] Wang H, Warner-Schmidt J, Varela S, Enikolopov G, Greengard P, Flajolet M. Norbin ablation results in defective adult hippocampal neurogenesis and depressive-like behavior in mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 2015;112:9745–50. source
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“in rodents, it has been estimated that up to 30-70% of newborn neurons die in the first month and that 1300 neurons are eliminated daily from the rodent hippocampus111, 112.”
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- Not checked yetcites [111] Dayer AG, Ford AA, Cleaver KM, Yassaee M, Cameron HA. Short-term and long-term survival of new neurons in the rat dentate gyrus. J Comp Neurol. 2003;460:563–72. source
- Not checked yetcites [112] Shors TJ, Townsend DA, Zhao M, Kozorovitskiy Y, Gould E. Neurogenesis may relate to some but not all types of hippocampal-dependent learning. Hippocampus. 2002;12:578–84. source
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“Additionally, BDNF expression was decreased in postmortem hippocampus in untreated MDDs but not in antidepressant-treated depressed individuals79.”
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- Not checked yetcites [79] Chen B, Dowlatshahi D, MacQueen GM, Wang JF, Young LT. Increased hippocampal BDNF immunoreactivity in subjects treated with antidepressant medication. Biol Psychiatry. 2001;50:260–5. source
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“However, proxy measurements such as paired associative stimulation (PAS) using a transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol have shown that PAS-induced increases in motor-evoked potential amplitudes were attenuated during major depressive episodes compared with healthy controls and normalized during remission151, 152.”
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- Not checked yetcites [151] Player MJ, Taylor JL, Weickert CS, Alonzo A, Sachdev P, Martin D, et al. Neuroplasticity in depressed individuals compared with healthy controls. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2013;38:2101–8. source
- Not checked yetcites [152] Moghaddam B, Bolinao ML, Stein-Behrens B, Sapolsky R. Glucocorticoids mediate the stress-induced extracellular accumulation of glutamate. Brain Res. 1994;655:251–4. source
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“Some have reported increased glutamate levels in the plasma of untreated MDD patients157, 158 in line with reports of high CSF glutamate concentrations in severely depressed, hospitalized MDD patients159 and in untreated elderly MDD patients when compared to healthy controls160.”
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“Synaptic strength moderates neural signaling between cells over an extended period175, 176, underlying circuit functionality.”
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“In vivo proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H MRS) detected elevated glutamate levels in ventromedial prefrontal cortex/anterior cingulate cortex in untreated MDD161 consistent with a recent meta-analysis of MRS imaging studies that found higher glutamate/glutamine concentrations in medial frontal cortex of unmedicated MDD but not in antidepressant-treated patients162.”
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“Thus, it is possible that, like in rodents, the role of newborn neurons in humans is predominately for conferring resilience on the hippocampal circuitry, and possibly facilitating circuit rewiring for the antidepressant response.”
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“These studies have generally observed increases in DG LTP147 and reductions in LTP at Schaffer collaterals-CA1 synapses148, 149 in response to acute and chronic stress.”
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“The transcription of BDNF is dependent upon activation of the cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) response element binding protein (CREB) protein which plays a critical role in LTP and synaptic plasticity142, 143.”
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“BDNF+/− mice show less dendritic branching as well as dendritic retraction and simplification in CA381 and DG80 and dysregulation of BDNF/TrkB pathways has been reported in MDD and animal models of depression78, 169-171.”
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“Normal stress responses involve glutamate release which downregulates AMPA and NMDA receptor expression, glutamate clearance by glia, and less dendritic spine and process complexity163, 164.”
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“As such, lower glutamate may be an antidepressant effect and not part of MDD pathogenesis.”
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“This may upregulate LTP pathways, and downregulate LTD177, 178, having benefits on network activity and consequently cognition and behavior.”
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“Dendritic retraction may be an adaptive way to protect neurons from high glutamate transmission, resulting in less LTP and cognitive decline.”
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“Exposure to stress attenuates LTP in dorsal hippocampus but augments LTP in ventral hippocampus of rodents150, which may explain memory deficits in the presence of strong emotional responses.”
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“In fact, rodent studies have shown that infusion of ketamine onto hippocampal neurons caused dose-dependent apoptosis, which was rescued by incubation with rapamycin (an inhibitor of mTOR), suggesting context-dependent benefits of ketamine196.”
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“Psychedelic drugs likely work via 5-HT2A receptors but require more research to elucidate their antidepressant effects202.”
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“Rodent models of depression show that ketamine administration increases dendritic spine density, length, arborization and morphology in CA1 pyramidal neurons201.”
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“Recent studies suggest that blood levels of sertraline, a common first-line antidepressant, can successfully be predicted through analysis of genes involved in sertraline metabolism and thus, giving an indication of drug effectiveness204-206.”
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Antidepressant medications are pharmacologically active within hours, but their antidepressant effects are not apparent for weeks after starting treatment.
“First, although these medications are pharmacologically active within hours, their antidepressant effects are not apparent for weeks after starting treatment.”
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Even when antidepressants have meaningful pharmacologic effects, many patients do not improve.
“Second, even when the medications are having meaningful pharmacologic effects, many patients do not improve.”
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The effects of antidepressants depend on downstream processes, such as increased neurogenesis, that take time to appear and are robust only in medication responders.
“The most widely accepted response to both questions is to assume that the effects of antidepressants are dependent on downstream processes, such as an increase in neurogenesis, that take time to appear and are only robust in medication responders.”
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High concentrations of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors make the hippocampus particularly vulnerable to allostatic load.
“Third, given its role in HPA axis regulation, the high concentrations of hippocampal glucocorticoid receptors make it particularly vulnerable to allostatic load.”
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Hippocampal volume loss is not pathognomonic for depression and can occur in the presence of environmental stressors, other psychiatric conditions, and neurodegenerative diseases.
“Hippocampal volume loss is not pathognomonic for depression and can occur in the presence of environmental stressors, other psychiatric conditions, and neurodegenerative diseases.”
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Traditional antidepressants act on the monoaminergic system to increase synaptic monoamine neurotransmitter levels.
“As previously discussed, traditional antidepressants target the monoaminergic system to increase levels of monoaminergic neurotransmitters in the synapse.”
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To increase LTP, some NMDA receptors must remain available.
“The dosage and affinity are important because, to increase LTP, some NMDA receptors must be available.”
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Neuroplasticity is integral to healthy cognitive and affective functioning.
“Neuroplasticity is integral to healthy cognitive and affective functioning.”
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Major depressive disorder clinical heterogeneity remains poorly understood, particularly how it relates to pathogenesis and treatment choices.
“MDD clinical heterogeneity remains poorly understood, particularly in terms of how it relates to pathogenesis and implications for treatment choices.”
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The duration or presence of major depression correlates with declines in neuroplasticity.
“While duration or presence of major depression correlates with declines in neuroplasticity, administration of antidepressants may reverse some of the neurobiological changes observed in MDD (Figure 4).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Tartt, A. N., Mariani, M. B., Hen, R., Mann, J. J., & Boldrini, M.
- Affiliations
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- New York State Psychiatric Institute (US)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Boldrini, Maura
- Venue
- Molecular Psychiatry
- Published
- 2022-03-30
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 2689-2699
- ISSN
- 1359-4184 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-5578
- PMC
- PMC9167750
- OpenAlex
- W4221105875
- Cited by
- 408
- References
- 227
- Citations by year
- 2026: 94 · 2025: 127 · 2024: 115 · 2023: 54 · 2022: 18
- FWCI
- 11.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
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- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R56AG063372, R01AG076949)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH083862, R21MH094888)
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (R21AI164769)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Treatment of Major Depression
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Keywords
- major depressive disorder, hippocampal plasticity, adult hippocampal neurogenesis, antidepressant mechanism, synaptic plasticity, depression pathogenesis, depression treatment
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Antidepressive Agents, Depression, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Hippocampus, Humans, Neuronal Plasticity
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
A language model drew the claims from the paper on 2026-10-05, under version 3 of the claim definition (model deepseek-v4.1-flash, prompt extract-v3).
A second model labelled each claim on 2026-10-05 (model jev-1.13-20260917, definition revision gold-guideline-v0.2).
Cited sources are checked with a language model’s help (gpt-6-sol).
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
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