Epigenetic mechanisms mediating vulnerability and resilience to psychiatric disorders

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1544-1551

  Dudley, Kevin J ^a   Li, Xiang ^a   Kobor, Michael S ^b   Kippin, Tod E ^c   Bredy, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Epigenetics; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BRAIN REGION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA MODIFICATION; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTONE MODIFICATION; MATERNAL CARE; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW;

BRAIN; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, GENETIC; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79957439601     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: 18737528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.12.016     Document Type: Review

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