The lasting impact of early-life adversity on individuals and their descendants: Potential mechanisms and hope for intervention

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 155-168

  Cowan, C S M ^a   Callaghan, B L ^b   Kan, J M ^a   Richardson, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Early life stress; Emotion regulation; Epigenetics; Fear learning; Memory; Treatment

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

EARLY LIFE STRESS; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MATING; MENTAL HEALTH; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LEARNING; LONG TERM ADVERSE EFFECTS; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; LEARNING; LONG TERM ADVERSE EFFECTS; PHENOTYPE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84954288717     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12263     Document Type: Review

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