Left hippocampal volume inversely correlates with enhanced emotional memory in healthy middle-aged women

Yutaka Matsuoka; Mitsue Nagamine; Etsuro Mori; Shigeru Imoto; Yoshiharu Kim; Yosuke Uchitomi

doi:10.1176/jnp.2007.19.3.335

Left hippocampal volume inversely correlates with enhanced emotional memory in healthy middle-aged women

J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2007 Summer;19(3):335-8. doi: 10.1176/jnp.2007.19.3.335.

Authors

Yutaka Matsuoka¹, Mitsue Nagamine, Etsuro Mori, Shigeru Imoto, Yoshiharu Kim, Yosuke Uchitomi

Affiliation

¹ 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

PMID: 17827421
DOI: 10.1176/jnp.2007.19.3.335

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Amygdala / anatomy & histology
Emotions / physiology*
Female
Functional Laterality*
Hippocampus / anatomy & histology*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Memory / physiology*
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Statistics as Topic*