Hippocampus smaller in veterans not recovered from PTSD
Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - 06:00
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- The hippocampus, a brain area associated with memory and stress, was about six percent smaller on average in veterans with current chronic PTSD than in veterans who had recovered from PTSD, in a study conducted by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.