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The Lasting Legacy of Social Stress on the Epigenome of the Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis
1 Aug 2012
Abstract excerpt
Social stress is a major factor contributing to early-life adversity that has taken on an epidemic scale. Early social stress leads to long-lasting changes in behavior, cognition, mood and neuroendocrine responses predisposing to or sheltering from stress-related diseases later in life. Epigenetic mechanisms are thought to mediate the effects of early social stress on the epigenome, and can give rise to...
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