Inhibiting a stress protein prevents the consequences of childhood trauma

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A new study, co-led by Mathias Schmidt from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich and Juan Pablo Lopez from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, focused on the FKBP5 gene and its encoded protein, FKBP51, a well-established regulator of the body's stress hormone system that is heavily implicated in psychiatric vulnerability.