Posted by SLS on August 18, 2014, at 14:49:31
Our genes determine the traces that stress leaves behind on our brains.
http://www.meduniwien.ac.at/homepage/1/news-and-topstories/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=5025&cHash=0001f37d9ebf2d59defeb837fd1d34fc
"According to the results of the study, just how stressful life events impact on the size of the hippocampus depends on more than just environmental factors. There are genes that determine whether the same life event causes an increase or decrease in the volume of the hippocampus, and which therefore defines whether the stress is good or bad for our brain. The more risk genes an individual has, the more negative an impact the "life events" have on the size of the hippocampus. Where there are no or only a few risk genes, this life event can actually have a positive effect"
"The study highlights the importance of gene and environment interaction as a determining factor for the volume of the hippocampus. "These results are important for understanding neurobiological processes in stress-associated illnesses such as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. It is ultimately our genes that determine whether stress makes us psychologically unwell or whether it encourages our mental health,"
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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