PMID- 17875039 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20071221 LR - 20151119 IS - 1323-1316 (Print) IS - 1323-1316 (Linking) VI - 61 IP - 5 DP - 2007 Oct TI - Serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels in conversion disorder: Comparative study with depression. PG - 571-3 AB - The aim of the present study was to compare serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) levels of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and conversion disorder (CD). Serum BDNF levels were measured in the following three groups: 15 CD patients without any comorbid diagnosis of psychiatric disorder, 24 patients with MDD, and 26 healthy subjects without any psychiatric diagnosis or psychiatric treatment. The serum BDNF level of the healthy control group (31.4 +/- 8.8 ng/mL) was statistically higher than the level of the MDD group (21.2 +/- 11.3 ng/mL) and the CD group (24.3 +/- 9.0 ng/mL; P = 0.008). This suggests that BDNF level may play a similar role in the pathophysiology of MDD and CD. FAU - Deveci, Artuner AU - Deveci A AD - Department of Psychiatry, Celal Bayar University School of Medicine, Manisa, Turkey. artuner.d@superonline.com FAU - Aydemir, Omer AU - Aydemir O FAU - Taskin, Oryal AU - Taskin O FAU - Taneli, Fatma AU - Taneli F FAU - Esen-Danaci, Aysen AU - Esen-Danaci A LA - eng PT - Comparative Study PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - Australia TA - Psychiatry Clin Neurosci JT - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences JID - 9513551 RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Adult MH - Biomarkers/blood MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*blood MH - Conversion Disorder/*blood/psychology MH - Depressive Disorder, Major/*blood/psychology MH - Female MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Middle Aged MH - Personality Inventory MH - Reference Values MH - Stress, Psychological/blood/complications EDAT- 2007/09/19 09:00 MHDA- 2007/12/22 09:00 CRDT- 2007/09/19 09:00 PHST- 2007/09/19 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/12/22 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/09/19 09:00 [entrez] AID - PCN1710 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01710.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2007 Oct;61(5):571-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01710.x.