Search for dissertations about: "Brenda Penninx"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Brenda Penninx.

  2. 1. Immunometabolic patterns in psychiatric disease

    Author : Mikaela Syk; Janet Cunningham; Lisa Ekselius; Annica J. Rasmusson; Robert Fredriksson; Brenda Penninx; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Psychiatry; Human; Autoimmunity; Cytokines; Inflammation; Adiponectin; Leptin; CNS damage; NfL; Tau; GFAp; Biomarkers; Depression; Neuroticism; Bulimia nervosa; Psychiatry; Psykiatri;

    Abstract : Many forms of immune system dysregulation are linked to psychiatric disorders. This thesis examines specific types of immune dysregulation in broad cohorts with psychiatric disease. The first section focuses on adipokines and other immunometabolic biomarkers and their interaction with state vs. trait symptoms. READ MORE

  4. 2. Telomeres and the brain : an investigation into the relationships of leukocyte telomere length with functional and structural attributes of the brain

    Author : Mikael Wikgren; Karl-Fredrik Norrback; Rolf Adolfsson; Göran Roos; Thomas Karlsson; Brenda Penninx; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; APOE; aging; atrophy; brain; cognition; cortisol; depression; hippocampus; HPA axis; MRI; stress; telomere length; white matter hyper-intensities.;

    Abstract : Telomeres are the outermost parts of linear chromosomes. They consist of tandemly repeated non-coding short nucleotide sequences (TTAGGG in all vertebrates), in humans spanning over the last 2 to 15 kilobase pairs of the chromosome. Due to the end-replication problem, telomeres shorten with each cellular division. READ MORE