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. 2011 Apr 4;5:47. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00047

Table 2.

Adult neurogenesis during disease.

Disease Area Rodent data Human data
Epilepsy Hippo. Acute increase in proliferation Increase in pNPCs and proliferation in pediatric patients
Acute increase in neurogenesis Increase or no change in proliferation in adult patients
Aberrant and ectopic new neurons
Chronic depletion
Decrease, no changed or increase in pNBs in adult patients
Huntington's disease SVZ Increased or unchanged SVZ proliferation migration of new neurons into the striatum Increase in proliferation; thicker SVZ increase in pNPCs and pNBs
Alzheimer's disease SVZ Decrease in proliferation
Decrease in differentiation
Decrease in proliferation
Increase in pNPCs
Hippo. Increase, no change or decrease in proliferation
Increase in neurogenesis
Decrease in differentiation and survival of newborn neurons
No change in proliferation
Increase in pNBs
Parkinson's disease SVZ Decrease in proliferation
Transient decrease in OB neurogenesis
Increase in OB neurogenesis and total neurons
Decrease in proliferation
Decrease in putative OB progenitors
Increase in OB neurogenesis and
DA neurons
Hippo. Decrease in proliferation
No proliferation or NPCs
Decrease in pNPCs
S. nigra Induction of neurogenesis No proliferation or pNPCs
Stroke SVZ Increase in proliferation
Increase in neurogenesis
NR
Hippo. Increase in proliferation
Increase in neurogenesis
NR
Striatum Induction of neurogenesis from SVZ progenitors NR
Cortex Induction of neurogenesis from SVZ progenitors Increase in proliferation
Increase in pNBs
Depression Hippo. Antidepressants increase proliferation and neurogenesis Increase or no changes in proliferation
Increase in pNPCs in patients treated with antidepressants

This table summarizes the major changes in neurogenesis in human neurological and psychiatric disorders. For details and references, see main text.

Hippo., hippocampus; S. nigra, substantia nigra; NR, non-reported.