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Research focus: Major psychiatric disorders (depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders), depression- dementia link, psychoneuroimmunology, kynurenine pathway and related neuroendocrinology, animal models of depression
Key words: Behavioral neuroscience, cellular neurobiology, clinical neuroscience, systems neurobiology, molecular neurobiology, developmental neurobiology
Selected publications:
Myint AM, Schwarz MJ, Steinbusch HWM and Leonard BE. (2008) Neuropsychiatric Disorders related to Interferon and Interleukins treatment. Metabolic Brain Diseases, DOI: 10.1007/s11011-008-9114-5.
Myint AM, Kim YK, Verkerk R, Scharpé S, Steinbusch H and Leonard B. (2007) Kynurenine pathway in major depression: evidence of impaired neuroprotection. J Affect Disord. 98(1-2):143-51.
Myint AM, Schawaller M, Verkerk R, Schwarz MJ, Hampel H and Müller N. (2006) Neurodegenerative markers for psychiatric conditions, Patent application at: Fa. Diamed Eurogen, Belgium, Inventors: October 12, 2006: Patent publication No: WO2006105907.
Myint AM, Leonard BE, Steinbusch HW and Kim YK. (2005) Th1, Th2, and Th3 cytokine alterations in major depression. J Affect Disord. 88(2):167-73.
Myint AM and Kim YK. (2003) Cytokine-serotonin interaction through IDO: a neurodegeneration hypothesis of depression. Med Hypothese 61(5-6): 519-25.