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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. Segmented hippocampal volume in children and adolescents with posttraumatic stress disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2005-09-30 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Future longitudinal studies with trauma control subjects and neuropsychological measures are indicated to further elucidate the relationship between hippocampus and behavioral abnormalities in young PTSD subjects.

  2. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurement of hippocampal volume in posttraumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. Journal of affective disorders 2005-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These findings are consistent with smaller hippocampal volume in adult subjects with chronic PTSD.

  3. Functional implications of hippocampal volume and diffusivity in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. NeuroImage 2005-08-03 Brain scans and imaging

    Hippocampal atrophy has been related to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early Alzheimer disease (AD), but the diagnostic significance of cross-sectionally determined hippocampal volumes is still ambiguous.

  4. Increased hippocampal activation in mild cognitive impairment compared to normal aging and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2005-08-01 Genetics

    The authors hypothesize that there is a phase of increased medial temporal lobe activation early in the course of prodromal Alzheimer disease followed by a subsequent decrease as the disease progresses.

  5. Longitudinal volumetric MRI change and rate of cognitive decline

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 2005-08-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Hippocampal volume was the primary determinant of memory decline, whereas executive function (EXEC) decline was related to multiple brain components.

  6. Reduced hippocampal volume among adolescents with alcohol use disorders without psychiatric comorbidity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2005-08-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Studies have suggested that teens with alcohol use disorder (AUD) can demonstrate memory deficits, but the underlying neuroanatomical substrates are unclear.

  7. Self-esteem, locus of control, hippocampal volume, and cortisol regulation in young and old adulthood

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2005-07-14 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Self-esteem, the value we place on ourselves, has been associated with effects on health, life expectancy, and life satisfaction.

  8. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism and volume of the hippocampal formation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2005-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging studies have identified hippocampal structural alterations in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia.

  9. Structural and functional brain development after hydrocortisone treatment for neonatal chronic lung disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Pediatrics 2005-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Prematurity is associated with mild brain structural differences that persist at 8 years of age, with associated lower scores in neurocognitive assessments.

  10. Correlates of hippocampal neuron number in Alzheimer's disease and ischemic vascular dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2005-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The cornu ammonis 1 region of the hippocampus (CA1) sector of hippocampus is vulnerable to both Alzheimer's disease (AD)-type neurofibrillary degeneration and anoxia-ischemia.

  11. Reduced hippocampal metabolism in MCI and AD: automated FDG-PET image analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2005-06-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The new HipMask technique provides accurate and rapid assessment of the hippocampus on PET without the use of regions of interest.

  12. Sex, apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 status, and hippocampal volume in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2005-06-01 Genetics

    The APOE*E4 genotype status appears to have a greater deleterious effect on gross hippocampal pathology and memory performance in women than in men.

  13. Preclinical detection of Alzheimer's disease: hippocampal shape and volume predict dementia onset in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2005-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Structural deformity of the hippocampus is characteristic of individuals with very mild and mild forms of dementia of the Alzheimer type (DAT).

  14. Reduced hippocampal volume in unmedicated, remitted patients with major depression versus control subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2005-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Recurrent depression is associated with smaller hippocampal volume which is most prominent in the posterior hippocampus.

  15. Reduced hippocampal volumes and memory loss in patients with early- and late-onset depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2005-03-01 Risk factors

    Although reduced hippocampal volumes are most pronounced in late-onset depression, older people with early-onset disorders also display volume changes and memory loss.

  16. MR-based in vivo hippocampal volumetrics: 1. Review of methodologies currently employed

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2005-02-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The advance of neuroimaging techniques has resulted in a burgeoning of studies reporting abnormalities in brain structure and function in a number of neuropsychiatric disorders.

  17. MR-based in vivo hippocampal volumetrics: 2. Findings in neuropsychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Molecular psychiatry 2005-02-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has opened a new window to the brain.

  18. Bilateral hippocampal volume reduction in adults with post-traumatic stress disorder: a meta-analysis of structural MRI studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 74 out of 100. Hippocampus 2005-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Over the last decade a significant number of studies have reported smaller hippocampal volume in individuals with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) relative to control groups, and in some cases hemispheric asymmetries in this effect have been noted.

  19. Increasing hippocampal neurogenesis: a novel mechanism for antidepressant drugs

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Current pharmaceutical design 2005-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The birth of new neurons, or neurogenesis, in the hippocampal formation has been demonstrated throughout the lifetime of multiple species including humans.

  20. Alterations of neuroplasticity in depression: the hippocampus and beyond

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2004-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Early hypotheses on the pathophysiology of major depression were based on aberrant intrasynaptic concentrations of mainly the neurotransmitters serotonin and norepinephrine.

  21. Hippocampal volume in adult burn patients with and without posttraumatic stress disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2004-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    PTSD is not a necessary condition for small hippocampal size in trauma-exposed individuals.

  22. Smaller hippocampal volume in patients with recent-onset posttraumatic stress disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2004-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    This result replicates previous findings of smaller hippocampal volumes in PTSD patients, but in an underinvestigated population, suggesting that either smaller hippocampal volume is a predisposing factor in the development of PTSD or that damage occurs within months of trauma, rather than a number of years.

  23. A longitudinal study of hippocampal volume, cortisol levels, and cognition in older depressed subjects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2004-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Older depressed subjects have persisting cognitive impairments associated with hippocampal volume reduction, but the results do not support cortisol-mediated hippocampal neurotoxicity as the major etiological mechanism.

  24. Cellular changes in the postmortem hippocampus in major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2004-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    In MDD, the packing density of glia, pyramidal neurons, and granule cell neurons is significantly increased in all hippocampal subfields and the dentate gyrus, and pyramidal neuron soma size is significantly decreased as well.

  25. Hippocampal volume and depression: a meta-analysis of MRI studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 72 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2004-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal volume is reduced in patients with unipolar depression, maybe as a consequence of repeated periods of major depressive disorder.

  26. The human perirhinal cortex and semantic memory

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The European journal of neuroscience 2004-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Studies in macaque monkeys indicate that the perirhinal cortex in the temporal lobe participates in object memory.

  27. The role of the hippocampus in the pathophysiology of major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN 2004-11-01 Lewy body dementia

    Converging lines of research suggest that the hippocampal complex (HC) may have a role in the pathophysiology of major depressive disorder (MDD).

  28. Atlas normalization, as commonly used by functional data analysis, provides an automated solution to the widely encountered problem of correcting for head size variation in regional and whole-brain morphometric analyses, so long as an age- and population-appropriate target atlas is used.

  29. Spatial memory, recognition memory, and the hippocampus

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2004-09-27 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    There is wide agreement that spatial memory is dependent on the integrity of the hippocampus, but the importance of the hippocampus for nonspatial tasks, including tasks of object recognition memory is not as clear.

  30. Frontal-hippocampal double dissociation between normal aging and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2004-09-15 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Controversy persists regarding whether Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a distinct entity or instead exists on a continuum with nondemented aging.

  31. Frontal lobe volume, function, and beta-amyloid pathology in a canine model of aging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2004-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Application of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques reveals that human brain aging varies across cortical regions.

  32. Smaller hippocampal volume in Dutch police officers with posttraumatic stress disorder

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2004-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    We confirmed previous findings of smaller hippocampal volume in PTSD in a new population made up of police officers, excluding comorbidity as a confounder.

  33. Enlarged amygdala volume and reduced hippocampal volume in young women with major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychological medicine 2004-08-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Our results are consistent with previous findings of structural abnormalities of amygdala and hippocampus in subjects with recent-onset major depression.

  34. Anatomical MRI study of borderline personality disorder patients

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Psychiatry research 2004-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal volume reduction has been reported in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), and is hypothesized to be associated with traumatic childhood experiences.

  35. Hippocampal volume, memory, and cortisol status in major depressive disorder: effects of treatment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2004-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Medication-free nonelderly depressed outpatients without alcohol dependence or adverse experiences in childhood had normal hippocampal volume.

  36. The amygdala is enlarged in children but not adolescents with autism; the hippocampus is enlarged at all ages

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2004-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impairments in reciprocal social interaction, deficits in verbal and nonverbal communication, and a restricted repertoire of activities or interests.

  37. Hippocampal volume change in depression: late- and early-onset illness compared

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science 2004-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Participants with late-onset depression had bilateral hippocampal atrophy compared with those with early-onset depression and controls.

  38. Midlife blood pressure and the risk of hippocampal atrophy: the Honolulu Asia Aging Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 51 out of 100. Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2004-05-24 Brain scans and imaging

    Hippocampal atrophy (HA) is usually attributed to the neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic plaques of Alzheimer disease.

  39. Implications of adult hippocampal neurogenesis in antidepressant action

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPN 2004-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    In the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus, cell birth and maturation into neurons, or neurogenesis, occur throughout the lifetime of animals and humans.

  40. Hippocampal and amygdala changes in patients with major depressive disorder and healthy controls during a 1-year follow-up

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. The Journal of clinical psychiatry 2004-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These results do not support the hypothesis that hippocampal volumes diminish during the 1-year follow-up period.

  41. Lower hippocampal volume in patients suffering from depression: a meta-analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2004-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Although the effect of major depressive disorder on amygdala volume remains to be conclusively established, inclusion of the amygdala with the hippocampus appears to have decreased the likelihood of detecting volumetric differences in either structure.

  42. Regional specificity of hippocampal volume reductions in first-episode schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. NeuroImage 2004-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal volume reductions are widely observed in schizophrenia.

  43. Hippocampal volume, spectroscopy, cognition, and mood in patients receiving corticosteroid therapy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2004-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Patients receiving chronic corticosteroid therapy have smaller hippocampal volumes, lower N-acetyl aspartate ratios, and declarative memory deficits compared with controls.

  44. Hippocampus and entorhinal cortex in mild cognitive impairment and early AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2004-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been suggested as a useful tool in early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  45. Delayed recall, hippocampal volume and Alzheimer neuropathology: findings from the Nun Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Neurology 2004-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    The association of neurofibrillary tangles with delayed verbal recall may reflect associated hippocampal atrophy.

  46. Higher atrophy rate of entorhinal cortex than hippocampus in AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Neurology 2004-02-01 Brain scans and imaging

    Twenty patients with AD and 25 CN subjects had MRI scans and clinical evaluations twice approximately 1.9 years apart.

  47. Hippocampal volume and memory performance in a community-based sample of women with posttraumatic stress disorder secondary to child abuse

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of traumatic stress 2004-02-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Childhood abuse is linked to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which follows abuse survivors into adulthood.

  48. Hippocampal volume in early onset depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BMC medicine 2004-01-29 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Our findings provide new evidence of abnormalities in the hippocampus in early onset depression.

  49. Delayed effects of chronic variable stress during peripubertal-juvenile period on hippocampal morphology and on cognitive and stress axis functions in rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Hippocampus 2004-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Animal studies on the effects of chronic variable stress during the peripubertal-juvenile period on hippocampal structure and function are lacking.

  50. Effects of hypoxia on the brain: neuroimaging and neuropsychological findings following carbon monoxide poisoning and obstructive sleep apnea

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS 2004-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hypoxia damages multiple organ systems especially those with high oxygen utilization such as the central nervous system.

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