Re:Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells
by ls612 on Friday August 21, 2026 @12:02AM
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In mice.
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Re:Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells
by leoh on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:12AM
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"In mice" is the right caveat for outcomes and the wrong one for mechanisms. Nobody’s selling you a drug here--they’re describing a chromatin change, and that’s the part rodents are actually good for.
The alternative study design is randomizing infants to early-life stress and biopsying their hippocampi at 30. Committee’s still reviewing it.