Chronic stress selectively reduces hippocampal volume in rats: A longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study

NeuroReport

Volumn 20, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 1554-1558

  Lee, Taekwan ^a   Jarome, Tim ^a   Li, Shi Jiang ^b   Kim, Jeansok J ^c   Helmstetter, Fred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Hippocampus; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Prefrontal cortex; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 75149158523     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328332bb09     Document Type: Article

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