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Monday, January 4, 2010

Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus

Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus

ScienceDaily (2010-01-04) -- 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 the way scientists think about psychiatric disorders and could open new avenues to treatment. ... > read full article

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