title: Left hippocampal volume inversely correlates with enhanced emotional memory in healthy middle-aged women.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
authors.forename: Mitsue
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagamine
authors.forename: Etsuro
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Imoto
authors.forename: Yoshiharu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Yosuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uchitomi
mesh_terms: 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