Hippocampal structural changes across the menstrual cycle

Hippocampus

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 985-988

  Protopopescu, Xenia ^a,b   Butler, Tracy ^a   Pan, Hong ^a   Root, James ^a   Altemus, Margaret ^a   Polanecsky, Margaret ^a   McEwen, Bruce ^b   Silbersweig, David ^c   Stern, Emily ^d  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Estrogen; Menstrual cycle; MRI; Structural; VBM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 55249089716     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20468     Document Type: Article

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