Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Childhood adversity permanently alters the peripheral and central immune systems, increasing the sensitivity of the body's immune response to cocaine, reports a study by researchers at the IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation and University of Rome "La Sapienza," Italy.
The study, published in Biological Psychiatry, showed that exposure to psychosocial stress early in life altered the structure of immune cells and inflammatory signals in mice and led to increased drug-seeking behavior. Exposure to early psychosocial stress in mice, or a difficult childhood in humans, increased the immune response to cocaine in adulthood, revealing a shared mechanism in the role of immune response in the effects of early life stress on cocaine sensitivity in mice and humans.
The findings help explain why as many as 50 percent of people who experience childhood maltreatment develop addiction problems. The results in mice and humans suggest that exposure to adversity during childhood triggers activation of the immune system, leading to permanent changes that sensitize the immune system and increase susceptibility to the effects of cocaine in adulthood.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:58AM (7 children)
Kids who face adversity are going to grow up to be addicts and parasites. Imagine that.
Did Lincoln not face adversity as a youth?
Edison's childhood was not advers?
I challenge people to find significant numbers of accomplished leaders who faced no adversity during childhood.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 21 2018, @04:26AM
Adolf Hitler's childhood wasn't the greatest either...
...not really sure where i'm going with this. Just sayin'
:/
Yeah...just ignore me and mein kampf.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jelizondo on Saturday July 21 2018, @04:36AM (3 children)
Hold your horses son! You draw that gun too fast and start shooting before you know friend from foe!
I'm the proud father of three children and grandfather of one. For my children, I paid their education, vacations in foreign lands, study abroad and many other things, but I am an addict. To nicotine, to books, to beer, to many other things. I am an addict but no parasite!
You strike as an older guy, why haven't you learned to look before shooting?
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 21 2018, @04:46AM (2 children)
Whoa, now. Does not the TFS and TFA imply that addicts are parasites?
I have my own small handful of addictions, and neither am I a parasite. I've paid my way through life, just as you apparently have.
(Score: 1) by jelizondo on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:54PM (1 child)
Sorry runaway, my sarcasm detector completely failed :-(
I apologize
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday July 21 2018, @06:02PM
No problems, man, we're cool. :^)
(Score: 2) by legont on Saturday July 21 2018, @04:49AM
Perhaps, to engage in such clearly pointless behavior, such as revolution or inventing, one really has to be immune challenged.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:22AM
Starting in the 18th century...
Robert Walpole, first British prime mininster
William Pitt the Elder, rescued the seven years war and well respected PM
William Pitt the Younger, youngest ever British PM and generally sound hand
Arthut Wellesley, military genius (later Duke of Wellington)
etc etc
Interestingly, not John Churchill (later Duke of Marlborough).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:12AM
We have too many "researchers" and not enough teachers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:43AM (1 child)
Do they ever study the other 50% to see what they did different? Almost everyone is going to be faced with adversity sometime in their life, so maybe find out what the people who turned out ok did or didn't do differently.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Saturday July 21 2018, @08:23AM
Negativity gets more news coverage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @07:42AM
Should I be worried cuz that shiz is about as stressful as one can get. You're gonna die, your not gonna die, you might go blind, day in and out for years. Hey look, another friend died, here jam this knitting needle up your nose. fts
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 23 2018, @10:33AM
... on the one hand I've got people telling me that it's all other people's fault; on the other, I've got people telling me that only God can help me.
That e-meter a few threads up is looking sexier by the minute.