Epigenetics in Psychology

Posted February 6, 2014

The epigenome has been heralded as a key “missing piece” of the puzzle for understanding how development of psychological disorders may be influenced by the surrounding environment. Epigenetics in psychology provides a framework for understanding how the expression of genes is influenced by experiences and the environment to produce individual differences in behavior, cognition, personality, and mental health. Take a deeper dive into the epigenetic aspects of mental health and review some of the challenges in epigenetic approaches in psychology in the latest addition to the Noba catalogue - Epigenetics in Psychology: Toward an Understanding of the Dynamic Interaction among Genes, Environment, and the Brain
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