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How Depression Affects Your Brain Structure
Recurrent bouts of depression causes your hippocampus to shrink, affecting your memory, sense of self, and general brain function.
Recurrent bouts of depression causes your hippocampus to shrink.
It’s not just your rote memory that is affected, behaviors associated with your sense of self are also altered, and a smaller hippocampus equates to a general loss of emotional and behavioral function.
The good news is the damage is likely reversible, but to do that, you have to actually do something about your situation. To learn more on how depression affects your brain, please click here.
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