Stress dynamically modulates neuronal autophagy to gate depression onset
Chronic stress is not just unpleasant; it degrades human health in several ways. One effect of chronic stress is increased susceptibility to depression, which itself exerts damaging effects on health and wellbeing. Neither of these conditions is deeply understood, and so perhaps it is unsurprising that the link between chronic stress and depression is unclear. A recent paper in Nature provides interesting and useful clues to that link, in a set of experiments that journey from effects of antidepressants to…
