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How Depression Affects Your Brain Structure

  • July 30, 2015
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Depression and the Brain

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  • Recurring depressive episodes reduce the size of your hippocampus, a brain area involved in forming emotions and memory; a smaller hippocampus equates to a loss of emotional and behavioral function

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