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  1. Synaptic loss in alcohol use disorder: clinical and mechanistic insights from a PET imaging study 2026-03-31
  2. Neighborhood environmental deprivation predicts the generalized neurocognitive deficit in schizophrenia 2025-12-19
  3. Bridging the Gap: Can Hippocampal Sclerosis Serve as a Surrogate Biomarker for LATE‐NC? 2025-12-01

Studies

492 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1986 to 2026

Top journals

  • Neurology 38
  • Biological psychiatry 36
  • NeuroImage 32
  • The American journal of psychiatry 22
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20

148 journals in all.

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  1. Chronic brain hypoperfusion causes early glial activation and neuronal death, and subsequent long-term memory impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research bulletin 2011-10-21 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Reduction of cerebral blood flow is an important risk factor for dementia states and other brain dysfunctions.

  2. Hippocampal sclerosis in the elderly: genetic and pathologic findings, some mimicking Alzheimer disease clinically

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer disease and associated disorders 2011-10-01 Genetics

    TDP-43 pathology was more frequent in cases with HpScl compared with those without HpScl (89% vs. 24%).

  3. Vulnerability to depression: from brain neuroplasticity to identification of biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    A stressful event increases the risk of developing depression later in life, but the possible predisposing factors remain unknown.

  4. Larger amygdala but no change in hippocampal volume in 10-year-old children exposed to maternal depressive symptomatology since birth

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011-08-15 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Maternal separation and poor maternal care in animals have been shown to have important effects on the developing hippocampus and amygdala.

  5. The dynamics of cortical and hippocampal atrophy in Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2011-08-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Alzheimer disease-specific cortical thinning and hippocampal volume loss are consistent with a sigmoidal pattern, with an acceleration phase during the early stages of the disease.

  6. Hippocampal atrophy in first episode depression: a meta-analysis of magnetic resonance imaging studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 76 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2011-07-13 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal volume loss in first episode depression is consistent with a neurodevelopmental model of depression, advocating hippocampal structure as a potential diagnostic neurobiomarker for depression.

  7. Structural neuroimaging studies in major depressive disorder. Meta-analysis and comparison with bipolar disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2011-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The meta-analyses revealed structural brain abnormalities in MDD that are distinct from those observed in BD.

  8. Segmentation of the mouse hippocampal formation in magnetic resonance images

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2011-06-17 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The hippocampal formation plays an important role in cognition, spatial navigation, learning, and memory.

  9. Metabolic dysregulation, especially insulin resistance, was associated with lower brain volumes and executive function in a large, relatively healthy, middle-aged, community-based cohort.

  10. Stress and inflammation reduce brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in first-episode psychosis: a pathway to smaller hippocampal volume

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2011-05-18 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Biological changes activated by stress represent a significant factor influencing brain structure and function in first-episode psychosis through an effect on BDNF.

  11. Hippocampal dysfunction effects on context memory: possible etiology for posttraumatic stress disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2011-05-11 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal volume reductions and functional impairments are reliable findings in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) imaging studies.

  12. Hippocampal volume reduction in first-episode and chronic schizophrenia: a review and meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry 2011-04-29 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Several magnetic resonance imaging studies have reported hippocampal volume reduction in patients with schizophrenia, but other studies have reported contrasting results.

  13. Effect of brain-derived neurotrophic factor haploinsufficiency on stress-induced remodeling of hippocampal neurons

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Hippocampus 2011-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Chronic restraint stress (CRS) induces the remodeling (i.e., retraction and simplification) of the apical dendrites of hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons in rats, suggesting that intrahippocampal connectivity can be affected by a prolonged stressful challenge.

  14. Exercise training increases size of hippocampus and improves memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 77 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011-01-31 Prevention and risk

    The hippocampus shrinks in late adulthood, leading to impaired memory and increased risk for dementia.

  15. Automated hippocampal shape analysis predicts the onset of dementia in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. NeuroImage 2011-01-25 Digital health tools

    The hippocampus is involved at the onset of the neuropathological pathways leading to Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  16. Depression and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal activation: a quantitative summary of four decades of research

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Psychosomatic medicine 2011-01-21 Risk factors

    The current study suggests that the degree of HPA hyperactivity can vary considerably across patient groups.

  17. Left anterior temporal cortex actively engages in speech perception: A direct cortical stimulation study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2011-01-18 Digital health tools

    Recent neuroimaging studies proposed the importance of the anterior auditory pathway for speech comprehension.

  18. Diminished gray matter in the hippocampus of cannabis users: possible protective effects of cannabidiol

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Drug and alcohol dependence 2010-11-02 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Lower volume in the right hippocampus in chronic cannabis users was corroborated.

  19. Atrophy in the parahippocampal gyrus as an early biomarker of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain structure & function 2010-10-19 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The main aim of the present study was to compare volume differences in the hippocampus and parahippocampal gyrus as biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  20. What the left and right anterior fusiform gyri tell us about semantic memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-10-15 How common it is

    The study of patients with semantic dementia, a variant of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, has emerged over the last two decades as an important lesion model for studying human semantic memory.

  21. Effects of ApoE4 and maternal history of dementia on hippocampal atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 44 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-09-15 Long-term cohort studies

    We applied an automated hippocampal segmentation technique based on adaptive boosting (AdaBoost) to the 1.5 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) baseline and 1-year follow-up data of 243 subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), 96 with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and 145 normal controls (NC) scanned as part of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).

  22. Hippocampal atrophy patterns in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2010-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The patterns of subfield atrophy in AD and MCI were consistent with patterns of neuronal cell loss/reduced synaptic density described by histopathology.

  23. Structural changes in the hippocampus in major depressive disorder: contributions of disease and treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN 2010-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Our results suggest that decreased hippocampal tail and hippocampal head volumes could be trait changes, whereas hippocampal body changes may be dependent on treatment.

  24. A neuroimaging investigation of the association between aerobic fitness, hippocampal volume, and memory performance in preadolescent children

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2010-08-22 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Because children are becoming overweight, unhealthy, and unfit, understanding the neurocognitive benefits of an active lifestyle in childhood has important public health and educational implications.

  25. Chronic restraint stress impairs neurogenesis and hippocampus-dependent fear memory in mice: possible involvement of a brain-specific transcription factor Npas4

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neurochemistry 2010-07-30 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Neurogenesis in the hippocampus occurs throughout life in a wide range of species and could be associated with hippocampus-dependent learning and memory.

  26. Hippocampal volume deficits associated with exposure to psychological trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in adults: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry 2010-06-21 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Trauma exposure itself in the absence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may be associated with hippocampal volume deficits.

  27. A generative model for image segmentation based on label fusion

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. IEEE transactions on medical imaging 2010-06-17 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We propose a nonparametric, probabilistic model for the automatic segmentation of medical images, given a training set of images and corresponding label maps.

  28. 3D PIB and CSF biomarker associations with hippocampal atrophy in ADNI subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-06-11 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) measures of Ab and tau, Pittsburgh Compound B (PIB) imaging and hippocampal atrophy are promising Alzheimer's disease biomarkers yet the associations between them are not known.

  29. Amygdala and hippocampus enlargement during adolescence in autism

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2010-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The abnormal enlargement of the amygdala and hippocampus in adolescents with autism adds to previous findings of enlargement of these structures in children with autism.

  30. Longitudinal fMRI in elderly reveals loss of hippocampal activation with clinical decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 63 out of 100. Neurology 2010-05-12 Genetics

    Longitudinal fMRI provides a reliable indicator of brain activation over time, and may prove useful in identifying functional brain changes associated with cognitive decline on the trajectory toward clinical Alzheimer disease.

  31. Neuropsychological dysfunction and neuroimaging abnormalities in neurologically intact adults with sickle cell anemia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. JAMA 2010-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Compared with healthy controls, adults with SCA had poorer cognitive performance, which was associated with anemia and age.

  32. Measurement of hippocampal atrophy using 4D graph-cut segmentation: application to ADNI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. NeuroImage 2010-04-09 Long-term cohort studies

    We propose a new method of measuring atrophy of brain structures by simultaneously segmenting longitudinal magnetic resonance (MR) images.

  33. A 10-year follow-up of hippocampal volume on magnetic resonance imaging in early dementia and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2010-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    With the increased interest in the use of sequential magnetic resonance images as potential surrogate biomarkers of the disease process, it has also been shown that the rate of hippocampal atrophy is higher in persons with Alzheimer's disease compared to those with mild cognitive impairment and the healthy elderly.

  34. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor is associated with age-related decline in hippocampal volume

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010-04-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    Hippocampal volume shrinks in late adulthood, but the neuromolecular factors that trigger hippocampal decay in aging humans remains a matter of speculation.

  35. Automated cross-sectional and longitudinal hippocampal volume measurement in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. NeuroImage 2010-03-15 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Volume and change in volume of the hippocampus are both important markers of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  36. Decreased hippocampal volume in healthy girls at risk of depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2010-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Compared with individuals at low familial risk of the development of depression, high-risk individuals have reduced hippocampal volume, indicating that neuroanatomic anomalies associated with depression may precede the onset of a depressive episode and influence the development and course of this disorder.

  37. Increase in hippocampal volume after electroconvulsive therapy in patients with depression: a volumetric magnetic resonance imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The journal of ECT 2010-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The hippocampal volume increases after ECT, supporting the hypothesis that hippocampus may play a central role in the treatment of depression.

  38. Magnetic resonance imaging of hippocampal subfields in posttraumatic stress disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2010-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The findings indicate for the first time in humans that PTSD is associated with selective volume loss of the CA3/dentate gyrus subfields, consistent with animal studies, implying that chronic stress suppresses neurogenesis and dendritic branching in these structures.

  39. Decreased numbers of progenitor cells but no response to antidepressant drugs in the hippocampus of elderly depressed patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropharmacology 2010-02-09 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Imaging studies have consistently documented hippocampal volume reductions in depression.

  40. Hippocampal plasticity in response to exercise in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 69 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2010-02-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These results indicate that in both healthy subjects and patients with schizophrenia hippocampal volume is plastic in response to aerobic exercise.

  41. White matter pathology isolates the hippocampal formation in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2010-02-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Prior work has demonstrated that the memory dysfunction of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is accompanied by marked cortical pathology in medial temporal lobe (MTL) gray matter.

  42. Automated 3D mapping of baseline and 12-month associations between three verbal memory measures and hippocampal atrophy in 490 ADNI subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. NeuroImage 2010-01-18 Digital health tools

    We used a previously validated automated machine learning algorithm based on adaptive boosting to segment the hippocampi in baseline and 12-month follow-up 3D T1-weighted brain MRIs of 150 cognitively normal elderly (NC), 245 mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 97 Dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT) ADNI subjects.

  43. Higher cortisol levels are associated with smaller left hippocampal volume in first-episode psychosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Schizophrenia research 2010-01-13 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    This study investigated the relationship between cortisol secretion and hippocampal volume in first-episode psychosis and healthy controls.

  44. Hippocampal pathology in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current topics in behavioral neurosciences 2010-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The hippocampus is abnormal in schizophrenia.

  45. Insulin resistance and hippocampal volume in women at risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2009-12-23 Genetics

    Insulin resistance (IR) is the main pathological condition underlying vascular disorders, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which are well established risk factors for cognitive decline and Alzheimer disease (AD).

  46. Hippocampal changes associated with early-life adversity and vulnerability to depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2009-12-16 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Smaller hippocampal volume in adolescents at high risk for depression suggests that it may be a vulnerability marker for the illness.

  47. Chronic stress selectively reduces hippocampal volume in rats: a longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neuroreport 2009-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The notion of uncontrollable stress causing reduced hippocampal size remains controversial in the posttraumatic stress disorder literature, because human studies cannot discern the causality of effect.

  48. Hippocampal correlates of pain in healthy elderly adults: a pilot study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neurology 2009-11-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Older adults who report more severe acute or chronic pain have smaller hippocampal volumes and lower levels of hippocampal N-acetylaspartate/creatine, a marker of neuronal integrity.

  49. Hippocampal volume and asymmetry in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease: Meta-analyses of MRI studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Hippocampus 2009-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Numerous studies have reported a smaller hippocampal volume in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients than in aging controls.

  50. Aerobic fitness is associated with hippocampal volume in elderly humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Hippocampus 2009-10-01 Prevention and risk

    Deterioration of the hippocampus occurs in elderly individuals with and without dementia, yet individual variation exists in the degree and rate of hippocampal decay.

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