The authors said it "cannot be determined" whether this was a "consequence" of gaming or if naturally larger regions led to a "vulnerability for preoccupation with gaming".
Briefly, exposure to prenatal or postnatal stressors interacts with genetic factors to "prime" the brain, which leads to a vulnerability as measured by changes in brain functioning or other biomarkers.
They could also lead to a greater vulnerability to other environmental stressors such as cannabis exposure or adulthood life events.
The many interrelationships among these factors lead to an additive vulnerability that increases the predictability that drug abuse will occur.
"We have done studies," Reynolds says, "with high stress occupations like nurses and we absolutely know that increased stress levels lead to an increased vulnerability to infections and diseases," even if the exact mechanisms of that link are not absolutely clear.
A reduced lytic cell activity, may lead to an increased vulnerability for viral infections and tumor development in the host.
Additionally, as mentioned, parental psychological control can lead adolescents to develop a cognitive bias of events as out of their control, which in turn can also lead to an increased vulnerability to anxiety disorder symptoms.
This environment, created by parental behavioral control, can lead the adolescent to a weak sense of self-efficacy, which in turn can lead to an increased vulnerability to the development of anxiety disorder symptoms.
For older patients with an eye condition it is not yet known which co-existing conditions lead to an increased vulnerability in terms of health-related QOL or a decline in QOL.
A false-positive homozygous deletion call, for example, will also lead to a false-positive vulnerability prediction in our analysis.
