Coming undone: How stress unravels the brain's structure
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 13:49
in Psychology & Sociology
The helpless behavior that is commonly linked to depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is preceded by stress-related losses of synapses—microscopic connections between brain cells—in the brain's hippocampal region, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the March 1 issue of Biological Psychiatry.
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