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Interaction of early life stress and corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor gene: effects on working memory.
Biological psychiatry - 1 Dec 2014
Fuge Philipp, Aust Sabine, Fan Yan, Weigand Anne, Gärtner Matti, Feeser Melanie, Bajbouj Malek, Grimm Simone
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Early life stress (ELS) experience is associated with persisting working memory (WM) deficits; changes to the corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) system; and structural, functional, and epigenetic changes in the hippocampus. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the CRH receptor 1 (CRHR1) gene interact with ELS experience to predict depression as well as neuroendocrine and neuronal reactivity. Although...
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