Abuse Causes a Suicidal Switch in Brain Gene Activity
An abused child does not have only an impaired behavior, but also a structurally different brain. That happens because early child abuse appears to permanently change gene expression in the brain, as pointed by a postmortem investigation of suicide victims, recently published in the Nature Neuroscience journal.
It is clear that we are the result of gene interaction and of the environment. External factors may determine which genes are turned on and off, thus impacting on our development. Som...
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