Structural changes in the brain in depression and relationship to symptom recurrence

CNS Spectrums

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 129-139

  Bremner, J Douglas ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID;

AGING; AMNESIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHRONICITY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; IMAGING; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; ORBITAL CORTEX; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THALAMUS; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 0036062485     PISSN: 10928529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1092852900017442     Document Type: Review

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