Early life anxiety may affect brain circuitry in regard to eating (VIDEO)

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Virginia Tech researcher Sora Shin of the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC led a study published Dec. 12 in Nature Neuroscience that for the first time identified how early life anxiety may change a certain brain circuit to induce binge-eating disorder later in life.

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