("For gawd's sake, somebody get a net over him and shut him up...." )

This is important, and then I will go quietly.

If you stress a pregnant rat at the right time, then her pups will be more stress sensitive.

If you raise those pups stress-free on silken pilows with little mice slaves peeling them grapes, when they have pups then those pups will also be stress sensitive.

I find it a little bit chilling to think about what that could mean in a society of a billion or two with constant elevated stress. The old would be the first to show symptoms, but then progressively younger. Those in the higher stressed industrialized countries would suffer more than the lower stressed third world. Sheesh, we may be the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Now, ain't that like a Parkie? )