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Toxic stress history and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function in a social stress task: Genetic and epigenetic factors.
Neurotoxicology and teratology - 1 Jan 2000
Lapp Hannah E, Ahmed Sarah, Moore Celia L, Hunter Richard G
Abstract excerpt
Histories of early life stress (ELS) or social discrimination can reach levels of severity characterized as toxic to mental and physical health. Such toxic social stress during development has been linked to altered acute hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) response to social stress in adulthood. However, there are important individual differences in the size and direction of these effects. We explored...
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