According to a recent study, it was found that youth in their late teens are four times more likely to commit suicide than those who live in better neighborhoods. It was also found that these kids from poor neighborhoods were twice as likely to report suicidal thoughts.
The study showed
that late teens from disadvantaged neighborhoods had higher levels of depressive symptoms along with lower levels of social support.
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Are genes destiny? Alternatively, are we simply the products of our environment? There is a growing sense that neither of these two possibilities fully captures the essence of the risk for psychiatric disorders.
There are an increasing variety of epigenetic mechanisms that have been described, including the regulation of gene function via the methylation or demethylation of DNA. The study by Drs. Michael Poulter
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