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Department of Neurology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Publications

• Short Commentary   
  Implications for the Neurobiology of Psychiatric Disorders
  Author(s): Yuk-Cheung Zhang*
  
  Long-lasting stress causes body-structure-related and hormonal helpful changes that lead to neurobiological results and behavioral and thinking-related disabilities. Especially, it has been shown to drive reduced neurogenesis and changed synaptic low quality in brain areas that control mood. The neurobiological and behavioral effects of stress look like the how a disease works and signs of sickness followed in psychiatric sicknesses, suggesting that there are almost the same hidden methods. Piling up events that prove something shows that neuroimmune systems, especially microglia, have a very important role in controlling the way our nerves and bodies work of stress. Preclinical models show that long-lasting stress causes, anger, changes in microglia phenotype and increases swelling cytokine signaling, which affects nerve-related function and leads to synaptic flexibility shortages an.. View More»
  

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