If chronic child abuse alters a victims gene expression in such a fashion as to trigger depression, this would be said to illustrate
A) a reactive temperament
B) an epigenetic effect
C) high seretonin levels
D) prenatal screening
Ans: B) an epigenetic effect
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George is in a drug treatment program where he and his
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