The origin and progression of neuropsychiatric and physical disorders share multiple risk factors, which act along common biological pathways to produce overlapping outcomes as illustrated on the image.
Pathways of activated immune–inflammatory stress, oxidative stress and nitrosative stress appear to underlie many psychiatric disorders and physical diseases, including MDD.1,2,3
MDD=major depressive disorder
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