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Newest in this topic

  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.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. In vivo quantification of hippocampal subfields using 4.7 T fast spin echo imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-09-26 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Several neuropsychiatric disorders involving hippocampal structural changes have been studied extensively using volumetric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

  2. The effects of chronic glucocorticoid exposure on dendritic length, synapse numbers and glial volume in animal models: implications for hippocampal volume reductions in depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Physiology & behavior 2009-09-26 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Glucocorticoids (GCs) are hormones secreted by the adrenal glands as an endocrine response to stress.

  3. Hippocampal volume assessment in temporal lobe epilepsy: How good is automated segmentation?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Epilepsia 2009-08-13 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Expert manual hippocampal volumetry is more sensitive than both automated methods for the detection of hippocampal atrophy associated with mTLE.

  4. Early parental care is important for hippocampal maturation: evidence from brain morphology in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-07-09 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The effects of early life experience on later brain structure and function have been studied extensively in animals, yet the relationship between childhood experience and normal brain development in humans remains largely unknown.

  5. Elevated basal cortisol level predicts lower hippocampal volume and cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2009-06-30 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Elevated glucocorticoid concentrations, decreased hippocampal volume and frontal atrophy with poor cognitive function have been reported in the elderly but not extensively in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  6. Effects of voluntary and forced exercise on plaque deposition, hippocampal volume, and behavior in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of disease 2009-06-12 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We examined the effects of voluntary (16 weeks of wheel running) and forced (16 weeks of treadmill running) exercise on memory-related behavior, hippocampal volume, thioflavine-stained plaque number, and soluble Abeta levels in brain tissue in the Tg2576 mouse model of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  7. Longitudinal pattern of regional brain volume change differentiates normal aging from MCI

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 70 out of 100. Neurology 2009-06-01 Mild cognitive impairment

    Early identification of patterns of abnormality is of fundamental importance for detecting disease onset and tracking progression.

  8. Modifiers of cognitive function and brain structure in middle-aged and elderly individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Brain research 2009-05-20 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Cognitive deficits and hippocampal atrophy, features that are shared with aging and dementia, have been described in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).

  9. Defining the human hippocampus in cerebral magnetic resonance images--an overview of current segmentation protocols

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-05-15 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Due to its crucial role for memory processes and its relevance in neurological and psychiatric disorders, the hippocampus has been the focus of neuroimaging research for several decades.

  10. Amygdala, hippocampal and corpus callosum size following severe early institutional deprivation: the English and Romanian Adoptees study pilot

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines 2009-04-17 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The adoption into the UK of children who have been reared in severely deprived conditions provides an opportunity to study possible association between very early negative experiences and subsequent brain development.

  11. Imaging phenotypes of major depressive disorder: genetic correlates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 2009-04-07 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Imaging techniques are a potentially powerful method of identifying phenotypes that are associated with, or are indicative of, a vulnerability to developing major depressive disorder (MDD).

  12. The BDNF Val66Met polymorphism impacts parahippocampal and amygdala volume in healthy humans: incremental support for a genetic risk factor for depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychological medicine 2009-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    This study demonstrates that the impact of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism is not confined to the hippocampus but also extends to the parahippocampal gyrus and the amygdala.

  13. Exposure to enriched environment restores the survival and differentiation of new born cells in the hippocampus and ameliorates depressive symptoms in chronically stressed rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience letters 2009-03-21 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Chronic stress decreases neurogenesis in the adult brain, while exposure to enriched environment (EE) increases it.

  14. Enriched environment restores hippocampal cell proliferation and ameliorates cognitive deficits in chronically stressed rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of neuroscience research 2009-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Adult neurogenesis, particularly in the subgranular zone, is thought to be linked with learning and memory.

  15. Hippocampal atrophy rates in Alzheimer disease: added value over whole brain volume measures

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurology 2009-03-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Whole brain atrophy rate discriminates Alzheimer disease (AD) from MCI.

  16. Source-based morphometry: the use of independent component analysis to identify gray matter differences with application to schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 49 out of 100. Human brain mapping 2009-03-01 Lewy body dementia

    We present a multivariate alternative to the voxel-based morphometry (VBM) approach called source-based morphometry (SBM), to study gray matter differences between patients and healthy controls.

  17. MRI of hippocampal volume loss in early Alzheimer's disease in relation to ApoE genotype and biomarkers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 2009-02-27 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal volume change over time, measured with MRI, has huge potential as a marker for Alzheimer's disease.

  18. Widespread neocortical abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy with and without mesial sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2009-02-26 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The pattern of thinning in TLE-no was different from the pattern in TLE-MTS.

  19. Prolactin prevents chronic stress-induced decrease of adult hippocampal neurogenesis and promotes neuronal fate

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009-02-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Chronic exposure to stress results in a reduction of hippocampal neurogenesis and of hippocampal volume.

  20. Opposite effects of early maternal deprivation on neurogenesis in male versus female rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2009-01-30 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Our data shows that early environment has a critical influence on establishing sex differences in neural plasticity and supports the concept that the setpoint for neurogenesis may be determined during perinatal life.

  21. A blunted cortisol awakening response and hippocampal atrophy in type 2 diabetes mellitus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009-01-24 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    There is emerging evidence from healthy individuals, as well as direct and indirect evidence from psychiatric and neurological patients with disease-related hippocampal atrophy, linking the cortisol awakening response (CAR) to hippocampal volume.

  22. A meta-analysis examining clinical predictors of hippocampal volume in patients with major depressive disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN 2009-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Although all studies were cross-sectional, our results suggest that hippocampal volume reductions generally occur after disease onset in patients with MDD.

  23. Postmenopausal hormone therapy and regional brain volumes: the WHIMS-MRI Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Neurology 2009-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Conjugated equine estrogens with or without MPA are associated with greater brain atrophy among women aged 65 years and older; however, the adverse effects are most evident in women experiencing cognitive deficits before initiating hormone therapy.

  24. Hippocampal volumes, proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy metabolites, and cerebrovascular disease in mild cognitive impairment subtypes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2008-12-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The MRI and 1H MRS findings in single-domain aMCI are consistent with a pattern similar to that of Alzheimer disease.

  25. Amygdala volume marks the acute state in the early course of depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2008-11-22 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    A state related increase of amygdala volume can be detected early in the course of MDD.

  26. Can voxel based morphometry, manual segmentation and automated segmentation equally detect hippocampal volume differences in acute depression?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-11-21 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Using VBM-DARTEL, when corrected for multiple comparisons, significant volume differences were detected between groups in different regions and more specifically in hippocampus with ROI analyses.

  27. Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on hippocampal volume, verbal learning, and verbal and spatial recall in late childhood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2008-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Children with prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) show deficits in verbal learning and spatial memory, as well as abnormal hippocampal development.

  28. Olfactory identification deficits and MCI in a multi-ethnic elderly community sample

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2008-10-28 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Odor identification deficits occur in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and predict clinical conversion from MCI to AD.

  29. Diffusion tensor imaging correlates of memory and language impairments in temporal lobe epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2008-10-22 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The results suggest that structural compromise to multiple fiber tracts is associated with memory and language impairments in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy.

  30. PUFA induce antidepressant-like effects in parallel to structural and molecular changes in the hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2008-10-10 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Epidemiological data suggest that omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) consumption may be inversely correlated to the prevalence and severity of depression but little is known about the underlying mechanisms.

  31. A common polymorphism in the brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF) modulates human cortical plasticity and the response to rTMS

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. The Journal of physiology 2008-10-09 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The brain-derived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF) is one of many genes thought to influence synaptic plasticity in the adult brain and shows a common single nucleotide polymorphism (BDNF Val66Met) in the normal population that is associated with differences in hippocampal volume and episodic memory.

  32. Multi-modal imaging predicts memory performance in normal aging and cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2008-10-05 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    This study (n=161) related morphometric MR imaging, FDG-PET and APOE genotype to memory scores in normal controls (NC), mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  33. Subjective cognitive failures and hippocampal volume in elderly with white matter lesions

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Neurology 2008-10-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Subjective cognitive failures (SCF) are associated with lower hippocampal volume, even in subjects without objective cognitive impairment and independent of white matter lesions.

  34. Effect of hippocampal and amygdala volumes on clinical outcomes in major depression: a 3-year prospective magnetic resonance imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN 2008-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Overall, our results suggest that a relatively small hippocampal volume may be a vulnerability factor for a bad treatment response in major depression.

  35. Hippocampal volume and cortical sources of EEG alpha rhythms in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-08-16 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Atrophy of hippocampus and alteration of resting eyes-closed electroencephalographic (EEG) rhythms represent important features of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  36. Hippocampus segmentation in MR images using atlas registration, voxel classification, and graph cuts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-08-12 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Since hippocampal volume has been found to be an early biomarker for Alzheimer's disease, there is large interest in automated methods to accurately, robustly, and reproducibly extract the hippocampus from MRI data.

  37. Lifespan mental activity predicts diminished rate of hippocampal atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2008-07-09 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    High level of complex mental activity across the lifespan was correlated with a reduced rate of hippocampal atrophy.

  38. The link between childhood trauma and depression: insights from HPA axis studies in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2008-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Childhood trauma is a potent risk factor for developing depression in adulthood, particularly in response to additional stress.

  39. Regional brain abnormalities associated with long-term heavy cannabis use

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2008-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These results provide new evidence of exposure-related structural abnormalities in the hippocampus and amygdala in long-term heavy cannabis users and corroborate similar findings in the animal literature.

  40. Brain tissue volumes in relation to cognitive function and risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2008-05-23 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We investigated in a population-based cohort study the association of global and lobar brain tissue volumes with specific cognitive domains and risk of dementia.

  41. Mapping limbic network organization in temporal lobe epilepsy using morphometric correlations: insights on the relation between mesiotemporal connectivity and cortical atrophy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2008-05-11 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is considered primarily a limbic disorder.

  42. Promoter-wide hypermethylation of the ribosomal RNA gene promoter in the suicide brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. PloS one 2008-05-07 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    This is the first study to show aberrant regulation of the protein synthesis machinery in the suicide brain.

  43. Neonate hippocampal volumes: prematurity, perinatal predictors, and 2-year outcome

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2008-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal volumes were reduced in PT infants exposed to several perinatal events but were preserved in PT infants without these exposures.

  44. Validation of hippocampal volumes measured using a manual method and two automated methods (FreeSurfer and IBASPM) in chronic major depressive disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroradiology 2008-04-15 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The automated hippocampal volumetric methods showed good agreement with manual hippocampal volumetry, but the volume measured using FreeSurfer was 35% larger and the agreement was questionable with IBASPM.

  45. Intrauterine growth restriction affects the preterm infant's hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Pediatric research 2008-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The hippocampus is known to be vulnerable to hypoxia, stress, and undernutrition, all likely to be present in fetal intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR).

  46. Chronic low dose corticosterone exposure decreased hippocampal cell proliferation, volume and induced anxiety and depression like behaviours in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European journal of pharmacology 2008-01-26 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    A dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) has been implicated in major depressive disorder and most commonly used animal models of depression have been shown to elevate circulating levels of plasma corticosterone.

  47. Three-dimensional surface mapping of hippocampal atrophy progression from MCI to AD and over normal aging as assessed using voxel-based morphometry

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 2008-01-16 Mild cognitive impairment

    The hippocampus is the brain structure of highest and earliest structural alteration in Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  48. Hippocampal and amygdala volumes in children and adults with childhood maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Hippocampus 2008-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Little work has directly examined the course of hippocampal volume in children and adults with childhood maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

  49. Preliminary evidence for sensitive periods in the effect of childhood sexual abuse on regional brain development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences 2008-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Volumetric MRI scans from 26 women with repeated episodes of childhood sexual abuse and 17 healthy female comparison subjects (ages 18-22 years) were analyzed for sensitive period effects on hippocampal and amygdala volume, frontal cortex gray matter volume and corpus callosum area.

  50. Structural and functional plasticity of the human brain in posttraumatic stress disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Progress in brain research 2008-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with long-term changes in neurobiology.

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