RELN and depressive disorder: As reelin secretion by neurons in the subgranular zone may be involved in regulating the maturation of adult hippocampal newborn neurons (Lussier et al., 2009), and as deficits in adult hippocampal neurogenesis have been proposed to be a key event underlying the development of a depressive phenotype (detailed above in section “Hypotheses About the Neurobiological Basis of Depression”), we recently examined the effects of repeated CORT injections on coexpression of reelin and nNOS across hippocampal subregions in brains from HRM and wildtype mice.