Childhood Trauma Associated With Smaller Hippocampal Volume in Women With Major Depression
- 1 December 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 159 (12), 2072-2080
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.159.12.2072
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Smaller hippocampal volume has been reported only in some but not all studies of unipolar major depressive disorder. Severe stress early in life has also been associated with smaller hip...Keywords
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