Monica Aas
Monica Aas is the Principal investigator (PI) on the project “Stress Under Skin” (SUS). NORMENT, Centre for Psychosis Research, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital & Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway. Monica has a PhD from Kings College London, and has received 12 international research prizes for young researchers. She is passionate in exploring the interplay between genes and environment, creating and presenting widely accredited papers and delivering lectures on a range of topics, including examining the link between early trauma and development of psychiatric disorders. Monica is also a member of the Young Academy of Norway founded on in 2015.
Childhood trauma in patients with severe mental disorders linked to shorter telomeres
Research published today in the open access Nature journal Translational Psychiatry, found patients with severe mental disorders who had experienced childhood abuse to have shorter telomeres, a predictor of biological age. Here, Monica Aas, lead author of the study, tells us about the findings and what the next steps are for the field.
Telomere length represents a ‘molecular clock’ that contributes to aging
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Telomeres are DNA-protein structures at the tails of chromosomes that shorten with increasing age in most human tissues. When a cell divides, the end of the chromosomes is not replicated. The telomeres will thus become a little bit shorter with each cell division.
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