Current research trends in early life stress and depression: Review of human studies on sensitive periods, gene-environment interactions, and epigenetics

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 102-111

  Heim, Christine ^a   Binder, Elisabeth B ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Development; Epigenome; Plasticity; Polymorphisms; Stress; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; BRAIN MATURATION; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ABUSE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVE PERIOD; SEXUAL ABUSE; TREND STUDY;

BRAIN; CLIMACTERIC; DEPRESSION; EPIGENOMICS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84856181467     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.10.032     Document Type: Review

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