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Child abuse alters stress-fighting gene, study says
Published: 24 February 2009
In a study published in the Journal Nature Neuroscience, researchers report that people who were abused or neglected as children showed genetic alterations that likely made them more biologically sensitive to stress. The findings help clarify the biology behind the wounds of a difficult childhood and hint at what constitutes resilience in those able to shake off such wounds. The 91社区 researchers were postdoctoral fellow Patrick McGowan, Michael Meaney, Aya Sasaki, Ana C. D'Alessio, Sergiy Dymov, Beno卯t Labont茅 and Moshe Szyf, all of 91社区, and Dr. Gustavo Turecki, a 91社区 researcher who leads the Brain Bank.