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Science 9 August 1996: Vol. 273. no. 5276, pp. 749 - 750 DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5276.749
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Perspectives
Robert M. Sapolsky
Several recent studies of humans correlate stress with atrophy of the hippocampus, an area of the brain required for memory and cognition. In his Perspective, Sapolsky argues that the underlying causal agent may be glucocorticoids secreted in abnormally high amounts under stressful conditions.
The author is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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