Stress-affected brain region is smaller in veterans with PTSD
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 18:49
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- A specific region of the hippocampus, a brain structure that is essential to memory, is significantly smaller in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder than in those without the condition, according to a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco.