Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus

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Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus

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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 brain. The discovery of "epigenetic" regulation of genes in the brain is helping change t

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

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news.psydir.com — “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...View full resource at news.psydir.com

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Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus

physorg.com — “(physorg.com) -- scientists are learning that the dynamic regulation of genes -- as much as the genes themselves -- shapes the fate of organisms. now the discovery of a new epigenetic mechanism regulating genes in the brain under stress is helping change the way scientists think about psychiatric disorders ...View full resource at physorg.com

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stress may scar the hippocampus-until we can see RNA in action in real time, will we know for sure? #genoanth http://tinyurl.com/yfy9f5e

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