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Table 5.

Extra-hippocampal sites of antidepressant action a.

Brain site Treatment CMS Depression
Lateral habenula Deep brain stimulation Lim et al., 2015 Sartorius et al., 2010
Agomelatine? Papp et al., 2003, Boulle et al., 2014, Rossetti et al., 2016 Taylor et al., 2014
Ventral tegmental area DA D2 antagonists Papp and Wieronska, 2000 Kriston et al., 2014
Nucleus accumbens DA D2 agonists Willner et al., 1994 Lattanzi et al., 2002
Deep brain stimulation Gersner et al., 2010 Bewernick et al., 2012
Medial forebrain bundle Deep brain stimulation Furlanetti et al., 2015 Galvez et al., 2015
dl-Prefrontal cortex Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation Feng et al., 2012, Wang et al., 2014, Kim et al., 2014 Rossini et al., 2005
vm-Prefrontal cortex Deep brain stimulation Hamani et al., 2012, Lim et al., 2015, Dournes et al., 2013 Mayberg, 2009
Ketamine Li et al., 2010, and many other papers Coyle and Laws, 2015
Riluzole Banasr et al., 2010 Zarate et al., 2004
L-acetylcarnitine Nasca et al., 2013 Bersani et al., 2013
Rapastinel Burgdorf et al., 2015 Preskorn et al., 2015
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For each target, the table lists CMS studies and provides a single example from the clinical literature.