Stress hormones and brain aging: Adding injury to insult?

Nada M. Porter; Philip W. Landfield

doi:10.1038/196

Stress hormones and brain aging: Adding injury to insult?

Nada M. Porter, Philip W. Landfield

Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences

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Clucocorticoids are known to promote the death of neurons in a variety of experimental systems. A new study suggests that they may also contribute to hippocampal atrophy during normal human aging.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-4
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature Neuroscience
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/196
State	Published - 1998

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