Prediction of Depression in Schizophrenia: Can serum Levels of BDNF or EGF Help us?

Copyright: © 2014, Ebru Oztepe Yavasci et al., This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Today, it is known that the levels of neurotrophic factors alter in neuropsychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder (MDD), schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s disease. In recent years, some studies demonstrated that MDD may occur as a result of the changes in neuronal plasticity at structural and molecular levels