Acute stress leaves epigenetic marks on the hippocampus
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 08:14
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists are learning that the dynamic regulation of genes -- as much as the genes themselves -- shapes the fate of organisms. Now the discovery of a new epigenetic mechanism regulating genes in the brain under stress is helping change the way scientists think about psychiatric disorders and could open new avenues to treatment.