L'Oreal awarded fellowships to five up-and-coming female scientists --
including Dr. Sarah Clinton, a Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Institute at the University of Michigan.
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She is breeding two types of rats with differences in emotional
behavior and comparing the impact of mothering-styles on their
offspring's behavior and neural stress-circuitry. When complete, this
body of work should yield a greater understanding of how genetic and
environmental factors interact to shape inborn differences in
emotionality which may, in turn, put certain individuals at risk for
developing stress-induced psychiatric disorders.
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