| It has been established that nature and
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| | current depression. In fact, their ACTH
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| nurture should not be taken as enemies or
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| | response indicators were more than six
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| total opposites, but as two intertwined
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| | times those of the healthy women.
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| realities that function together to make
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| | In addition to high levels of stress
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| up the human experience. Nature was
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| | hormones, other studies by the same group
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| designed for nurture.
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| | found that women who had been abused as
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| Many recent and notable studies have
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| | children had abnormal development of the
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| documented the effects that early
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| | brain's hippocampus, which suggests
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| childhood experience can have on both the
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| | another physical result of early abuse
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| physical and chemical makeup of the
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| | that could lead to permanent brain
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| brain. In particular, childhood abuse and
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| | abnormalities in later life.
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| or neglect can permanently alter an
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| | Other brain structures can also be
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| individual's physiology. These
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| | affected by early abuse or neglect. While
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| physiological changes may lead to a
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| | the basic unit of the brain is in place
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| greater likelihood of the person
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| | at birth, neuronal pathways for the
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| suffering from depression or anxiety
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| | body's reaction to different experiences
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| later in life.
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| | are still developing.
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| Groundbreaking results from a major study
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| | There is a critical period of time in a
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| of depressed women in the US have shown
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| | child's first three years of life during
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| that women who were abused as children
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| | which most of these pathways are formed.
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| have abnormally elevated hormonal
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| | If a child receives primarily negative
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| responses to stress compared to women
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| | stimulation early in life, pathways for
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| with no history of abuse. It suggests
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| | forming lasting relationships and
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| that childhood abuse is associated with
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| | responding to positive experiences can be
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| persistent hyperactivity of the hormonal
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| | stunted or destroyed. While this may be a
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| system associated with the stress
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| | reaction to help the child survive, it
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| response and this may cause greater
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| | can cause permanent difficulties for the
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| vulnerability to psychiatric disorders in
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| | individual.
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| adulthood.
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| | Other research shows that the brains of
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| The study, headed by Dr. Charles Nemeroff
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| | severely neglected children tend to be
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| at Emory University, looked at women
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| | smaller than average with underdeveloped
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| diagnosed with clinical depression who
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| | areas in the cortex. The long term
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| had been abused as children; depressed
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| | implications of this are still being
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| women with no past abuse; and healthy
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| | examined, but it shows one more way in
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| women. Each person was given a moderately
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| | which nurture or lack of it can affect a
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| stressful experience and asked to perform
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| | person's biological make-up.
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| simple mathematic problems aloud for a
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| | The knowledge that nature and nurture are
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| panel of stalwart non expressive judges.
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| | two crucial aspects to a person's health
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| Cortisol and ACTH (two hormones that play
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| | will undoubtedly prove to be a very
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| a critical role in a person's response to
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| | useful tool in the research and treatment
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| stress) were measured in each subject
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| | of psychiatric illness and may lead to
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| while she completed the task. It was
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| | even more effective treatments in the
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| found that the levels of these hormones
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| | future.
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| were especially pronounced in women who
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