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hippocampal vulnerability hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Biological psychiatry

the proposal that a smaller hippocampus is a pre-existing risk factor for developing posttraumatic stress disorder rather than only a result of trauma.

In biological psychiatry, hippocampal vulnerability hypothesis refers to the proposal that a smaller hippocampus is a pre-existing risk factor for developing posttraumatic stress disorder rather than only a result of trauma. This meaning comes from Gilbertson (2002) in Nature Neuroscience.[1]

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References

Gilbertson, M. W., Shenton, M. E., Ciszewski, A., Kasai, K., Lasko, N. B., Orr, S. P., & Pitman, R. K. (2002). Smaller hippocampal volume predicts pathologic vulnerability to psychological trauma. Nature Neuroscience, 5(11), 1242-1247. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn958

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