Parental nurturing important for normal functioning of brain later in life – epigenomic impact | rndsync's Blog

Parental nurturing important for normal functioning of brain later in life – epigenomic impact | rndsync's Blog: "Just as in complex systems small perturbations at the beginning have huge impact on the outcome later, scientists in these researchers found that small changes in maternal care had long lasting changes even into adulthood.
'We already knew that maternal care determined the stress responses of an offspring through a similar process, but this is the first time maternal care has been shown to link, via epigenetics, with a key enzyme that causes a major human disorder,' said Jonathan Seckl, MD, PhD, of The University of Edinburgh, and an expert on the molecular process of hormones."