Depression and the dance of brain cells | Dance your PhD 2024 |

Video description: This video is based on the core concept of Malosree Maitra’s thesis research, which investigated cell type specific gene expression differences in the brain in individuals with depression. Depressive disorders affect millions of people worldwide. Diverse brain cell types with specialized functions have been associated with depression and new technologies, such as single-cell sequencing, are currently being applied to better understand the individual contributions of these cell types to depression. The research was conducted under the supervision of professors Gustavo Turecki and Corina Nagy at the Douglas Hospital Research Centre (McGill University). The full thesis is available here: The video first introduces depression (depressive disorders). Then it introduces some of the major brain cell types and discusses how their functions may be disrupted in a condition like depression. Finally, the video describes the