Chronic stress in early life causes anxiety, aggression in adulthood, neurobiologists find
Thursday, March 27, 2014 - 14:00
in Psychology & Sociology
In experiments to assess the impacts of social stress upon adolescent mice, both at the time they are experienced and during adulthood, a Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory team conducted many different kinds of stress tests and means of measuring their impacts. The research indicates that a 'hostile environment in adolescence disturbs psychoemotional state and social behaviors of animals in adult life,' the team says.