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Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus | Psydir News

In trying to explain psychiatric disorders, genes simply cannot tell the whole story. The real answers are in the interaction of genes and the environment. Post-traumatic stress disorder requires some trauma, for instance, and people, for the most part, aren't born depressed. Now research has revealed one mechanism by which a stressful experience changes the way that genes are expressed in the rat...

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Tags: Anxiety Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Depression, Disease and Condition, Genes, Environment, Stress Management, Trauma