Childhood hardship primes immune system for addiction
Tuesday, July 17, 2018 - 10:00
in Health & Medicine
Childhood adversity permanently alters the peripheral and central immune systems, increasing the sensitivity of the body’s immune response to cocaine, reports a study by researchers at the IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation and University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy. The study, published in Biological Psychiatry, showed that exposure to psychosocial stress early in life altered the structure of immune […]