Sunday 20 January 2013

Study Finds Link Between Adolescent Stress And Adult Mental Illness

A research on mouse has revealed the link between the stress in adolescence and mental illness in adults. Researchers from Johns Hopkins have established a link between elevated levels of a stress hormone in adolescence - a critical time for brain development - and genetic changes that, in young adulthood, cause severe mental illness in those predisposed to it. The findings, reported in the journal iScience/i, could have wide-reaching implications ...

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