Depression duration but not age predicts hippocampal volume loss in medically healthy women with recurrent major depression

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 5034-5043

  Sheline, Yvette I ^a,b   Sanghavi, Milan ^a   Mintun, Mark A ^a,b   Gado, Mokhtar H ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Amygdala; Depression; Glucocorticoids; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; Neurotoxicity; Stereology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL LOSS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0033564043     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-12-05034.1999     Document Type: Article

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