The Hippocampus in Depression: More Than the Sum of Its Parts? Advanced Hippocampal Substructure Segmentation in Depression

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2019, Pages 487-497

  Roddy, Darren W ^a,b   Farrell, Chloe ^a   Doolin, Kelly ^a   Roman, Elena ^a   Tozzi, Leonardo ^d   Frodl, Thomas ^a,d   O'Keane, Veronica ^a   O'Hanlon, Erik ^a,c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depression; First presentation; FreeSurfer; Hippocampus; Recurrent; Substructure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DENTATE HILUS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBICULUM; ATROPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATROPHY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85055273465     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.08.021     Document Type: Article

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