This early life stress also depresses brain connections between the pre frontal cortex and the emotional centers of the brain leading to poor or even a complete loss of emotional control later on in life. Stressed youth will be more likely to end up in prison due to uncontrolled emotional excursions
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:24 PM, H Veeder <[email protected]> wrote: > Stress alters children's genomes > > Poverty and unstable family environments shorten chromosome-protecting > telomeres in nine-year-olds. > > http://www.nature.com/news/stress-alters-children-s-genomes-1.14997 >
