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Long-term treatment with paroxetine increases verbal declarative memory and hippocampal volume in posttraumatic stress disorder

Vermetten E, Vythilingam M, Southwick SM, Charney DS, Bremner JD. Long-term treatment with paroxetine increases verbal declarative memory and hippocampal volume in posttraumatic stress disorder. Biol Psychiatry. October 2003;54(7):693-702.

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Publication Date
October 2003

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“The commercial software package Analyze (… Robb et al 1989) was used to reslice MRI coronal scans to correct for head rotation and to create slices in a parallel–oblique coronal plane perpendicular to the long axis of each hippocampus (right and left) separately.”

Keywords
Adult
Brain Mapping
Case-Control Studies
Female
Hippocampus/drug effects/physiology
Humans
Individuality
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Male
Memory/drug effects
Middle Aged
Neuropsychological Tests
Paroxetine/therapeutic use
Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors/therapeutic use
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/drug therapy/pathology/physiopathology
Time
Verbal Learning/drug effects
Wechsler Scales

Author Affiliation(s)
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, US. (EV, JDB)

Positron Emission Tomography Center/Nuclear Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, US. (EV, JDB)

Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, GA, US. (EV, JDB)

Program for Mood and Anxiety Disorders, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD, US. (MV, DSC)

Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, US. (SMS)

National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, CT, US. (SMS)

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