Early life adversity as a risk factor for visceral pain in later life: importance of sex differences

A history of early life adversity (ELA) has health-related consequences that persist beyond the initial maltreatment and into adulthood. Childhood adversity is associated with abnormal glucocorticoid signaling within the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and the development of functional pa...

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Main Authors: Aaron eChaloner, Beverley eGreenwood-VanMeerveld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
Subjects:
HPA
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2013.00013/full