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Hippocampal volume and subjective memory impairment in depressed patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

Armin von Gunten  and
Maria A. Ron
Armin von Gunten
Affiliation:
Service Universitaire de Psychogériatrie, route du Mont, 1008 Prilly, Lausanne, Switzerland
Maria A. Ron*
Affiliation:
Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, LondonWC1N 3BG, UK
*
*Corresponding author. Email addresses:m.ron@ion.ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

The relationship between severity of subjective memory impairment and volume of the hippocampus/amygdala complex was investigated in non-demented depressed patients and it was found to correlate with decreasing volume in the right hippocampus.

Keywords

Hippocampal volumeMemoryDepression
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Research report
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European Psychiatry , Volume 19 , Issue 7 , November 2004 , pp. 438 - 440
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2004

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