Left hippocampal volume inversely correlates with enhanced emotional memory in healthy middle-aged women

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 335-338

  Matsuoka, Yutaka ^a,b,d   Nagamine, Mitsue ^a,b   Mori, Etsuro ^c   Imoto, Shigeru ^b   Kim, Yoshiharu ^d   Uchitomi, Yosuke ^b  

^a National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL;

EID: 34548089427     PISSN: 08950172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/jnp.2007.19.3.335     Document Type: Article

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