Coming undone: How stress unravels the brain's structure

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 11:12 in Psychology & Sociology

The helpless behaviour 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 1 March issue of Biological Psychiatry...

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