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Meaney et al (1988)

Meaney carried out a study of the role of stress hormones on memory. More importantly, this study shows that the mother"s touch or grooming of her offspring leads to gene expression which helps in the regulation of stress. Those rats that are groomed, regulate stress better. This leads to lower levels of lifetime cortisol levels which means that they have less memory impairment later in life.This is a good example of...

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