Decrease in cortisol reverses human hippocampal atrophy following treatment of Cushing's disease

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1595-1602

  Starkman, Monica N ^a   Giordani, Bruno ^b   Gebarski, Stephen S ^b   Berent, Stanley ^b   Schork, M Anthony ^b   Schteingart, David E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Caudate head volume; Cortisol; Cushing's Disease; Hippocampal formation volume; Magnetic resonance imaging; Reversibility

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERCORTISOLISM; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATROPHY; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CUSHING SYNDROME; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033432872     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(99)00203-6     Document Type: Article

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