The effects of stress on memory and the hippocampus throughout the life cycle: Implications for childhood development and aging

Development and Psychopathology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 871-885

  Bremner, J Douglas ^a   Narayan, Meena ^b  

^a Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032150502     PISSN: 09545794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0954579498001916     Document Type: Article

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