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Unraveling the epigenetic landscape of depression: focus on early life stress .
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience - 1 Dec 2019
Torres-Berrío Angélica, Issler Orna, Parise Eric M, Nestler Eric J
Abstract excerpt
Depression is a devastating psychiatric disorder caused by a combination of genetic predisposition and life events, mainly exposure to stress. Early life stress (ELS) in particular is known to "scar" the brain, leading to an increased susceptibility to developing depression later in life via epigenetic mechanisms. Epigenetic processes lead to changes in gene expression that are not due to changes in DNA sequence,...
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