[HN Gopher] Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain's ...
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Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain's reward circuits
Author : gmays
Score : 25 points
Date : 2023-02-28 20:59 UTC (1 days ago)
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| swayvil wrote:
| You call it maturation, I call it indoctrination.
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| I for one think there's a derangement in preferring a dream of
| the future to the substance of the present.
| nickdothutton wrote:
| The East Germans did some very interesting research into the
| impact of stress and trauma (the sort of stress you expense while
| being area-bombed during the latter stages of WW2) on expectant
| mothers and their unborn children. Unfortunately this doesn't
| seem to have made its way online (I suspect a lot of it was
| unethical, so people are unwilling to cite it).
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| Edited for typo.
| jlawson wrote:
| There are other studies done on people who gestated and were
| born through the lean years of WW2 in Europe. They still have
| trouble with weight 50 years later, statistically. It seems
| like that prenatal and early starvation permanently changed how
| their bodies interact with food.
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| I think there may have been a stress response difference too
| but can't remember exactly.
|
| Source: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Sapolsky. This whole
| book is about stress.
| crtified wrote:
| It may be gross oversimplification to say "if your formative
| years teach you that things suck, then you will expect things to
| suck (and will behave accordingly) forevermore...".
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