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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.

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. Stress-induced changes in cerebral metabolites, hippocampal volume, and cell proliferation are prevented by antidepressant treatment with tianeptine

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2001-10-02 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Stress-induced structural remodeling in the adult hippocampus, involving debranching and shortening of dendrites and suppression of neurogenesis, provides a cellular basis for understanding the impairment of neural plasticity in the human hippocampus in depressive illness.

  2. MRI-derived entorhinal and hippocampal atrophy in incipient and very mild Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2001-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    With high resolution, quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, it is now possible to examine alterations in brain anatomy in vivo and to identify regions affected in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  3. Longitudinal MRI study of hippocampal volume in trauma survivors with PTSD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2001-08-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Smaller hippocampal volume is not a necessary risk factor for developing PTSD and does not occur within 6 months of expressing the disorder.

  4. The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis in Major Depressive Disorder: A Brief Primer for Primary Care Physicians

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Primary care companion to the Journal of clinical psychiatry 2001-08-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The data support that HPA axis activation is common in depressed patients.

  5. Effects of age on tissues and regions of the cerebrum and cerebellum

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2001-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Normal volunteers, aged 30 to 99 years, were studied with MRI.

  6. Hippocampal formation glucose metabolism and volume losses in MCI and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 59 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2001-07-01 Brain scans and imaging

    We used MRI volume sampling with coregistered and atrophy corrected FDG-PET scans to test three hypotheses: 1) hippocampal formation measures are superior to temporal neocortical measures in the discrimination of normal (NL) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI); 2) neocortical measures are most useful in the separation of Alzheimer disease (AD) from NL or MCI; 3) measures of PET glucose metabolism (MRglu) have greater diagnostic sensitivity than MRI volume.

  7. Hippocampal volume discriminates between normal cognition; questionable and mild dementia in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 2001-03-01 Cognitive tests and assessment

    The sensitivity of MRI volumetric measures to detect cognitive dysfunction is examined in 39 participants of an epidemiological field study (age 75-85, MMSE 19-30).

  8. Longitudinal study of brain morphology in first episode schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 60 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2001-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Although numerous studies of the longitudinal course of schizophrenia have demonstrated the clinical deterioration that occurs predominantly in the early stages of the illness, the pathophysiology of this clinical phenomenon has not been established.

  9. Astrocytic clasmatodendrosis in hippocampal organ culture

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Glia 2001-02-01 Biomarkers

    Mechanisms by which astrocytes are irreversibly injured from ischemic brain injury remain incompletely defined.

  10. Neuroimaging studies of the hippocampus in schizophrenia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Hippocampus 2001-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Three neuroimaging techniques, morphometric neuroimaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and functional neuroimaging, have provided evidence for abnormal hippocampal structure and function in schizophrenia.

  11. Early DAT is distinguished from aging by high-dimensional mapping of the hippocampus. Dementia of the Alzheimer type

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2000-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Assessments of hippocampal volume and shape derived from HDBM may be useful in distinguishing early DAT from healthy aging.

  12. Fornix and hippocampal atrophy in traumatic brain injury

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) 2000-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    This study compared a fornix cross-sectional-area measurement and hippocampal volume in 86 traumatic brain injury (TBI) subjects with 46 normal controls.

  13. Glucocorticoids and hippocampal atrophy in neuropsychiatric disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 2000-10-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    An extensive literature stretching back decades has shown that prolonged stress or prolonged exposure to glucocorticoids-the adrenal steroids secreted during stress-can have adverse effects on the rodent hippocampus.

  14. The possibility of neurotoxicity in the hippocampus in major depression: a primer on neuron death

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2000-10-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    A number of studies indicate that prolonged, major depression is associated with a selective loss of hippocampal volume that persists long after the depression has resolved.

  15. Rates of hippocampal atrophy correlate with change in clinical status in aging and AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2000-08-22 Brain scans and imaging

    Rates of hippocampal atrophy match both baseline cognitive status and the change in cognitive status over time in elderly persons who lie along the cognitive continuum from normal to MCI to AD.

  16. Hippocampal volume in geriatric depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 58 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2000-08-01 Brain tissue and pathology

    There is a growing literature on the importance of hippocampal volume in geriatric depression.

  17. Longitudinal change in hippocampal volume as a function of apolipoprotein E genotype

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Neurology 2000-07-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The epsilon4 allele of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene confers an increased risk for the development of AD.

  18. Hippocampal volume and everyday memory in children of very low birth weight

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Pediatric research 2000-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Children born preterm and of very low birth weight have an increased incidence of learning difficulties, but little is known about the specific nature of their cognitive deficits and the underlying neuropathology.

  19. Hippocampal volume in primary unipolar major depression: a magnetic resonance imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 2000-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The results of our study indicate no reduction in the volume of the hippocampus in patients with major depression.

  20. Hippocampal volume in adolescent-onset alcohol use disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2000-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    In the mature brain, chronic alcohol use disorders are associated with graded global brain dysmorphology.

  21. Usefulness of MRI measures of entorhinal cortex versus hippocampus in AD

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 2000-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Despite the theoretical rationale for the superiority of entorhinal measurements in early AD, the authors found MRI measurements of the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex were approximately equivalent at intergroup discrimination.

  22. Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2000-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Structural MRIs of the brains of humans with extensive navigation experience, licensed London taxi drivers, were analyzed and compared with those of control subjects who did not drive taxis.

  23. Volumetry of hippocampus and amygdala with high-resolution MRI and three-dimensional analysis software: minimizing the discrepancies between laboratories

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2000-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Within the medial temporal lobe, both the hippocampus and amygdala are frequently targeted by researchers and clinicians for volumetric analysis based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

  24. Hemispheric differences in hippocampal volume predict verbal and spatial memory performance in patients with Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Hippocampus 2000-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Atrophy of the hippocampal formation, a region important for the acquisition of new declarative knowledge, has been well-documented in Alzheimer's disease (AD), although the relation of such atrophy to the extent of memory dysfunction in these patients has been less clear.

  25. Hippocampal volume reduction in major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 2000-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These findings are consistent with smaller left hippocampal volume in depression.

  26. The histological validation of post mortem magnetic resonance imaging-determined hippocampal volume in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 2000-01-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    For 11 AD cases and four normal elderly controls, post mortem volumes of the hippocampal subdivisions were calculated by using magnetic resonance imaging and histological sections.

  27. Decrease in cortisol reverses human hippocampal atrophy following treatment of Cushing's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 1999-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Changes in human HFV associated with sustained hypercortisolemia are reversible, at least in part, once cortisol levels decrease.

  28. MRI volumes of amygdala and hippocampus in non-mentally retarded autistic adolescents and adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1999-12-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    There is a reduction in the volume of amygdala and hippocampus in people with autism, particularly in relation to total brain volume.

  29. Thalamic and amygdala-hippocampal volume reductions in first-degree relatives of patients with schizophrenia: an MRI-based morphometric analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 1999-10-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These findings require further work to determine if the abnormalities are an expression of the genetic liability to schizophrenia.

  30. Depression duration but not age predicts hippocampal volume loss in medically healthy women with recurrent major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1999-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    This study takes advantage of continuing advances in the precision of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to quantify hippocampal volumes in a series of human subjects with a history of depression compared with controls.

  31. A.E. Bennett Research Award. Developmental traumatology. Part II: Brain development

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 1999-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These data suggest that the overwhelming stress of maltreatment experiences in childhood is associated with adverse brain development.

  32. Age-related metabolite changes and volume loss in the hippocampus by magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurobiology of aging 1999-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have produced controversial results concerning the correlation of hippocampal volume loss with increasing age.

  33. Does stress damage the brain?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biological psychiatry 1999-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Studies in animals showed that stress results in damage to the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory, with associated memory deficits.

  34. Hippocampal volume in patients with alcohol dependence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 1999-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    In chronic alcoholism, the reduction of hippocampal volume is proportional to the reduction of the brain volume.

  35. MRI volumes of the hippocampus and amygdala in adults with Down's syndrome with and without dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. The American journal of psychiatry 1999-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Hippocampal volume, while disproportionately small for brain size in individuals with Down's syndrome, remains fairly constant through the fifth decade of life in those without dementia.

  36. Prediction of AD with MRI-based hippocampal volume in mild cognitive impairment

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 66 out of 100. Neurology 1999-04-01 Brain scans and imaging

    During the period of longitudinal observation, which averaged 32.6 months, 27 of the 80 MCI patients became demented.

  37. The neuropathology of schizophrenia. A critical review of the data and their interpretation

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 67 out of 100. Brain : a journal of neurology 1999-04-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Functional imaging data indicate that the pathophysiology of schizophrenia reflects aberrant activity in, and integration of, the components of distributed circuits involving the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and certain subcortical structures.

  38. Effect of chronic high-dose exogenous cortisol on hippocampal neuronal number in aged nonhuman primates

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 1999-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Chronic exposure to increased glucocorticoid concentrations appears to lower the threshold for hippocampal neuronal degeneration in the old rat.

  39. Sex and seasonal differences in the rate of cell proliferation in the dentate gyrus of adult wild meadow voles

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuroscience 1999-03-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    In order to study the neurobiological basis of seasonal changes in hippocampal structure and function, the rate of cell proliferation was examined in male and female wild meadow voles captured during different seasons.

  40. Hippocampal volume in first-episode psychoses and chronic schizophrenia: a high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 1999-02-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    These data show that smaller hippocampal volumes are present from the onset of illness.

  41. Regional changes in hippocampal T2 relaxation and volume: a quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study of hippocampal sclerosis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 1998-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Measurement of regional abnormalities of HT2 along the length of the hippocampus provides further refinement to the MRI assessment of the hippocampi in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and is complementary to volumetric and morphological data.

  42. Hippocampal morphometry in schizophrenia by high dimensional brain mapping

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1998-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Theories of the pathophysiology of schizophrenia have implicated the hippocampus, but controversy remains regarding hippocampal abnormalities in patients with schizophrenia.

  43. Memory impairments associated with hippocampal versus parahippocampal-gyrus atrophy: an MR volumetry study in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Neuropsychologia 1998-09-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Delayed memory impairments and medial temporal-lobe atrophy are considered to be cardinal features of Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  44. Hippocampal volumes in cognitively normal persons at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1998-08-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Brain imaging techniques have the potential to characterize neurobiological changes that precede the onset of cognitive impairment in persons at risk for Alzheimer's disease.

  45. Amygdala core nuclei volumes are decreased in recurrent major depression

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Neuroreport 1998-06-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The amygdala is a key structure in the brain's integration of emotional meaning with perception and experience.

  46. Cortisol levels during human aging predict hippocampal atrophy and memory deficits

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Nature neuroscience 1998-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Elevated glucocorticoid levels produce hippocampal dysfunction and correlate with individual deficits in spatial learning in aged rats.

  47. Hippocampal volume reduction in schizophrenia as assessed by magnetic resonance imaging: a meta-analytic study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 64 out of 100. Archives of general psychiatry 1998-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Schizophrenia is associated with a bilateral volumetric reduction of the hippocampus and probably of the amygdala as well.

  48. Recurrent seizures may cause hippocampal damage in temporal lobe epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 1998-05-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    In patients with cryptogenic epilepsy, recurrent seizures may cause damage to the hippocampus throughout the lifetime of the patient.

  49. The relationship between quantitative MRI and neuropsychological functioning in temporal lobe epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Epilepsia 1998-02-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    Our results provide some support for the lateralised model of material specific memory deficits, but suggest that a number of demographic and epilepsy-related factors may interact with the extent and laterality of hippocampal pathology in shaping the nature of the associated neuropsychological deficit.

  50. Quantitative neuropathology and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging of the hippocampus in temporal lobe epilepsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1997-11-01 Hippocampus size on brain scans

    The aims of this study were to examine the relationships of hippocampal T2 (HCT2) relaxation time and magnetic resonance (MR)-based hippocampal volume (HCV) to neuronal (ND) and glial cell densities (GD) of hippocampal neuronal cell layers, and to obtain a better clinicopathological definition of hippocampal sclerosis (HS) and end folium sclerosis (EFS).

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