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Intergenerational Resilience in Response to the Stress and Trauma of Enslavement and Chronic Exposure to Institutionalized Racism
2018-01-01
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There is evidence of a link between intergenerational epigenetic trauma, environmental adversity, and resilience. Resiliency is an adaptive response associated with lower psychopathology and a suite of specific physiological changes including alterations in cortisol levels regulating the inflammatory immune response and resistance to telomere shortening in response to stress. The feedback loops linking environment...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b8041928-3e5b-5135-8b27-1dbb84c9e014
- DOI
- 10.21767/2472-1158.1000100
