Stress exposure is one of the major triggers of unipolar depressive disorders, debilitating conditions whose core symptoms include changes in reward processing and responsiveness to environmental stimuli.  However, despite the importance of this motivational dysregulation, the relationship between depression and neural processes that mediate appetitive responses to environmental has still not been precisely synthesized. In … Continue reading Project 5: Dopamine/CRF interactions in the genesis of depressive disorders (Phillips)