Fornix Structural Connectivity and Allostatic Load: Empirical Evidence from Schizophrenia Patients and Healthy Controls.

ABSTRACTObjectiveThe fornix is a white matter tract carrying the fibers connecting the hippocampus and the hypothalamus, two essential stress-regulatory structures of the brain. We tested the hypothesis that allostatic load (AL), derived from a battery of peripheral biomarkers indexing the cumulativ