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Stress causes hair to become grey but it's a reversible process

If the stress is removed soon after greying has started, reversal is still possible

02-Jun-2020

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Human hair turns grey due to stress and then reverts to its natural colour when the stress is removed.

Analysed 400 hair samples using a new imaging technique to detect pigment levels.

Calculate when a person's hair had started to turn grey, and when it had reverted back.

14 participants took part in this study

Collaborative research by Columbia University and University of Miami, published in bioRxiv.

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Ayelet Rosenberg

Research Assistant at Mitochondrial Psychobiology Lab and Department of Psychiatry in Columbia University

bioRxiv

The preprint server for biology.

Columbia University

Private Ivy League research university in New York City

Miller School of Medicine

Graduate medical school of the University of Miami.

Topics mentioned on this page:
Hair loss, Mental Wellbeing