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Patients with recurrent depression have smaller hippocampi

June 30, 2015 by

The brains of people with recurrent depression have a significantly smaller hippocampus -- the part of the brain most associated with forming new memories -- than healthy individuals, a new global study of nearly 9,000 people reveals.

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