UM scientist awarded L'Oreal fellowship

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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