Stress and Loss of Adult Neurogenesis Differentially Reduce Hippocampal Volume

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 914-923

  Schoenfeld, Timothy J ^a   McCausland, Hayley C ^a   Morris, H Douglas ^b   Padmanaban, Varun ^a   Cameron, Heather A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; CA3 atrophy; Depression; Hippocampal volume; MRI; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CHRONIC UNPREDICTABLE STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; DORSAL HIPPOCAMPUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHARMACOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ADULT STEM CELL; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC RAT; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, TRANSGENIC; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 85020827927     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.05.013     Document Type: Article

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