Left hippocampal volume inversely correlates with enhanced emotional memory in healthy middle-aged women.
The authors investigated the effect of hippocampal volume on enhanced emotional memory in 27 healthy women. Irrespective of age, education, intracranial volume, cognitive function, delayed recall, and neuroticism, left hippocampal volume showed a significant negative correlation with enhanced emotional memory.
Matsuoka
Yutaka
Y
Division of Adult Mental Health, NIMH, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Ogawahigashi 4-1-1, Kodaira, Tokyo 187-8553, Japan. yutaka@ncnp.go.jp
Nagamine
Mitsue
M
Mori
Etsuro
E
Imoto
Shigeru
S
Kim
Yoshiharu
Y
Uchitomi
Yosuke
Y
D000328:Adult; D000679:Amygdala / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013223:Statistics as Topic