Stress and hippocampal plasticity.

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Summary

The hippocampus is a target of stress hormones, and it is an especially plastic and vulnerable region of the brain that undergoes a selective atrophy in a number of disorders, accompanied by deficits in declarative episodic, spatial, and contextual memory performance.

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review
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1999-03-01
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Keywords

Dentate gyrus, Neuroscience, Neurogenesis, Hippocampal formation, Hippocampus

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