Article
Perinatal stress and epigenetics.
Handbook of clinical neurology - 1 Jan 2021
Szyf Moshe
Abstract excerpt
Animal and humans exposed to stress early in life are more likely to suffer from long-term behavioral, mental health, metabolic, immune, and cardiovascular health consequences. The hypothalamus plays a nodal role in programming, controlling, and regulating stress responses throughout the life course. Epigenetic reprogramming in the hippocampus and the hypothalamus play an important role in adapting genome...
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