[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.
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         | 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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