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Neurobiological Consequences of Early Life Stress
The foundation for the development of a broad spectrum of stress-related disorders is laid early in development. Early-life stress, including prenatal stress exposure, increases individual susceptibility for t...
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Open AccessThe effects of social isolation stress and discrimination on mental health
Social isolation and discrimination are growing public health concerns associated with poor physical and mental health. They are risk factors for increased morbidity and mortality and reduced quality of life. ...
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Open AccessFossilized anaerobic and possibly methanogenesis-fueling fungi identified deep within the Siljan impact structure, Sweden
Recent discoveries of extant and fossilized communities indicate that eukaryotes, including fungi, inhabit energy-poor and anoxic environments deep within the fractured igneous crust. This subterranean biosphe...
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Open AccessHair cortisol concentrations are associated with hippocampal subregional volumes in children
The human hippocampus, a brain structure crucial for memory across the lifespan, is highly sensitive to adverse life events. Stress exposures during childhood have been linked to altered hippocampal structure ...
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Stress, Early Life
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Pharmacological Stress Tests
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Neurobiologische Folgen früher Stresserfahrungen
Die Grundlage für die Entstehung verschiedenster stressbedingter Störungen wird bereits früh in der Entwicklung gelegt. Frühe stressreiche oder traumatische Erlebnisse, ebenso wie pränatale Stressoren, können ...
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Open AccessTiming and origin of natural gas accumulation in the Siljan impact structure, Sweden
Fractured rocks of impact craters may be suitable hosts for deep microbial communities on Earth and potentially other terrestrial planets, yet direct evidence remains elusive. Here, we present a study of the l...
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Erratum zu: Oxytocin und Misshandlungspotenzial
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Open AccessPalaeoenvironmental setting of lacustrine stromatolites in the Miocene Wudaoliang Group, northern Tibetan Plateau
Lacustrine stromatolites were widespread in the Miocene Wudaoliang Group (stromatolites of the Wudaoliang Group), northern Tibetan Plateau; but only at one location nearby the Wudaoliang Town, they occurred in...
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Oxytocin und Misshandlungspotenzial
Oxytocin (OXT) wird als „Empathiehormon“ bezeichnet, das mit sozialer Interaktion und Eltern-Kind-Beziehung in Zusammenhang gebracht wird. Mütter mit psychischen Belastungsfaktoren, wie einer Depression in der...
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Flammer Syndrome: Psychological Causes and Consequences of Visual Impairment
About 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide, amongst them 39 million are blind. In contrast to refractive deficits caused by diseases of the cornea or lens which can be corrected b...
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Mental stress as consequence and cause of vision loss: the dawn of psychosomatic ophthalmology for preventive and personalized medicine
The loss of vision after damage to the retina, optic nerve, or brain has often grave consequences in everyday life such as problems with recognizing faces, reading, or mobility. Because vision loss is consider...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Lifetime stress accelerates epigenetic aging in an urban, African American cohort: relevance of glucocorticoid signaling
Upon publication of the original article [1] it was highlighted by the authors that a transposition error affected Additional file 1, causing the misplacement of several columns and rendering the table difficu...
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Psychobiological Consequences of Child Maltreatment
Adversity in early life, such as childhood abuse, neglect, and loss, is a well-established major risk factor for develo** a range of psychiatric and medical disorders later in life. Biological embedding of m...
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Open AccessMeasurement of cortisol in saliva: a comparison of measurement error within and between international academic-research laboratories
Hundreds of scientific publications are produced annually that involve the measurement of cortisol in saliva. Intra- and inter-laboratory variation in salivary cortisol results has the potential to contribute ...
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Open AccessAnaerobic consortia of fungi and sulfate reducing bacteria in deep granite fractures
The deep biosphere is one of the least understood ecosystems on Earth. Although most microbiological studies in this system have focused on prokaryotes and neglected microeukaryotes, recent discoveries have re...
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Frühe Stresserfahrungen und Krankheitsvulnerabilität
Das stetig wachsende Forschungsgebiet der „Frühe[n] Programmierung von Krankheit und Gesundheit“ untersucht, inwieweit die individuelle Vulnerabilität für die Entstehung verschiedenster Erkrankungen über die L...
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Open AccessLifetime stress accelerates epigenetic aging in an urban, African American cohort: relevance of glucocorticoid signaling
Chronic psychological stress is associated with accelerated aging and increased risk for aging-related diseases, but the underlying molecular mechanisms are unclear.
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Open AccessExtreme 13C depletion of carbonates formed during oxidation of biogenic methane in fractured granite
Precipitation of exceptionally 13C-depleted authigenic carbonate is a result of, and thus a tracer for, sulphate-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation, particularly in marine sediments. Although these carbonates ...
