Enlarged amygdala volume and reduced hippocampal volume in young women with major depression

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1059-1064

  Lange, C ^a   Irle, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGE OF ONSET; AMYGDALA; ANTHROPOMETRY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 4444349496     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291703001806     Document Type: Article

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