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Lasting epigenetic influence of early-life adversity on the BDNF gene.

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An epigenetic molecular mechanism potentially underlying lifelong and transgenerational perpetuation of changes in gene expression and behavior incited by early abuse and neglect is highlighted.
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This article is published in Biological Psychiatry.The article was published on 2009-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1176 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Behavioral epigenetics & Epigenetics.

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The Lifelong Effects of Early Childhood Adversity and Toxic Stress

Jack P. Shonkoff, +1 more
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TL;DR: An ecobiodevelopmental framework is presented that suggests that many adult diseases should be viewed as developmental disorders that begin early in life and that persistent health disparities associated with poverty, discrimination, or maltreatment could be reduced by the alleviation of toxic stress in childhood.
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Suicide and suicidal behaviour

TL;DR: Improved recognition and understanding of clinical, psychological, sociological, and biological factors might help the detection of high-risk individuals and assist in treatment selection.
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Socioeconomic status and the brain: mechanistic insights from human and animal research

TL;DR: These findings provide a unique opportunity for understanding how environmental factors can lead to individual differences in brain development, and for improving the programmes and policies that are designed to alleviate SES-related disparities in mental health and academic achievement.
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Epigenetics and the biological definition of gene x environment interactions.

TL;DR: This review focuses on the enduring effects of naturally occurring variations in maternal care on gene expression and phenotype to provide an example of environmentally driven plasticity at the level of the DNA, revealing the interdependence of gene and environmental in the regulation of phenotype.
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Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations

TL;DR: Using olfactory molecular specificity, the inheritance of parental traumatic exposure is examined and a framework for addressing how environmental information may be inherited transgenerationally at behavioral, neuroanatomical and epigenetic levels is provided.
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Analysis of relative gene expression data using real-time quantitative pcr and the 2(-delta delta c(t)) method

TL;DR: The 2-Delta Delta C(T) method as mentioned in this paper was proposed to analyze the relative changes in gene expression from real-time quantitative PCR experiments, and it has been shown to be useful in the analysis of realtime, quantitative PCR data.
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A new mathematical model for relative quantification in real-time RT-PCR.

TL;DR: This study enters into the particular topics of the relative quantification in real-time RT-PCR of a target gene transcript in comparison to a reference gene transcript and presents a new mathematical model that needs no calibration curve.
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Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior.

TL;DR: It is shown that an epigenomic state of a gene can be established through behavioral programming, and it is potentially reversible, suggesting a causal relation among epigenomicState, GR expression and the maternal effect on stress responses in the offspring.
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Physiology and Neurobiology of Stress and Adaptation: Central Role of the Brain

TL;DR: As an adjunct to pharmaceutical therapy, social and behavioral interventions such as regular physical activity and social support reduce the chronic stress burden and benefit brain and body health and resilience.
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A neurotrophic model for stress-related mood disorders.

TL;DR: Analysis of preclinical cellular and behavioral models of depression and antidepressant actions, as well as clinical neuroimaging and postmortem studies, are consistent with the hypothesis that decreased expression of BDNF and possibly other growth factors contributes to depression and that upregulation ofBDNF plays a role in the actions of antidepressant treatment.
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