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firemonkey
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13 Nov 2019, 11:42 am

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People exposed to a lifetime of psychosocial adversity may have an impaired ability to produce the dopamine levels needed for coping with acutely stressful situations.

These findings, published today in eLife, may help explain why long-term exposure to psychological trauma and abuse increases the risk of mental illness and addiction.


https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2 ... ceDaily%29



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13 Nov 2019, 11:50 am

That makes sense.



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13 Nov 2019, 12:43 pm

I remember reading about some experiments on rodents that showed it is even heritable, probably epigenetics.


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