Stress and hippocampal plasticity: impli
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Bruce S. McEwen; Ana Maria Magarinos
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Article
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2001
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The hippocampal formation, a structure involved in declarative, spatial and contextual memory, is a particularly sensitive and vulnerable brain region to stress and stress hormones. The hippocampus shows a considerable degree of structural plasticity in the adult brain. Stress suppresses neurogenesi