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ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2025

New directions in neurosteroid therapeutics in neuropsychiatry.

Charles F Zorumski, Douglas F Covey, Yukitoshi Izumi, Alex S Evers, Jamie L Maguire, Steven J Mennerick

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. A Non-Classical Neuroactive Steroid Exhibiting Potent, Efficacious GABAbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  12. Neurosteroids: a lifelong impact on brain health.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Charles F ZorumskiDepartments of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. Electronic address: zorumskc@wustl.edu.
Douglas F CoveyDepartments of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Yukitoshi IzumiDepartments of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Alex S EversDevelopmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Jamie L MaguireDepartment of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Steven J MennerickTaylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.

Funding

Neuroactive steroids as novel psychiatric treatments: mechanistic studiesP50MH122379 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI EVERS, ALEX S. · 2021 to 2025
$12.2M
Neurosteroid and Cholesterol Binding to Integral Membrane ProteinsR35GM149287 · NIGMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI ALEX S. EVERS · 2023 to 2026
$2.4M
GABAA RECEPTOR POPULATIONS IN HIPPOCAMPUS AND THALAMUSR01MH123748 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MENNERICK, STEVEN J · 2021 to 2025
$2.4M
Oxysterols and NMDAR FunctionR01MH101874 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MENNERICK, STEVEN J, ZORUMSKI, CHARLES F · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM149287NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH122379NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101874NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH123748
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In recent years three neuroactive steroids (NAS), brexanolone (allopregnanolone, AlloP), ganaxolone and zuranolone, have been approved for the treatment of neuropsychiatric illnesses including postpartum depression and seizures in a neurodevelopmental syndrome. The approved agents are pregnane steroids and strong positive allosteric modulators (PAMs) of gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptors (GABA

Indexed as

Mental DisordersNeuropsychiatryNeurosteroidsAnimalsHumansPregnanoloneReceptors, GABA-ANeurosteroidsPregnanoloneReceptors, GABA-AAllopregnanoloneBrain networksGABA receptorsMajor depressionNeuroinflammationNMDA receptorsPregnenolone sulfate

Identifiers

PMID40127877
PMCPMC13044583

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