Article
Maternal Care and Individual Differences in Defensive Responses
2005-10-01
Abstract excerpt
Familial transmission of mental illness is common. Recent studies in behavioral neuroscience and biological psychiatry reveal the importance of epigenetic mechanisms of transmission that center on the developmental consequences of variations in parental care. Studies with rats suggest that environmental adversity results in patterns of parent–offspring interactions that increase stress reactivity through sustained...
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- Literature Corpus work
- f6fb917f-3090-5bf8-a4f1-ecdc5b5d439a
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.0963-7214.2005.00370.x
