The field of nutritional psychiatry has generated observational and efficacy data supporting a
role for healthy dietary patterns in depression onset and symptom management. To guide …

Attachment is an inborn behavioral system that is biologically driven and essential for
survival. During child development, individual differences in (in) secure attachment emerge …

Two extant evolutionary models, biological sensitivity to context theory (BSCT) and
differential susceptibility theory (DST), converge on the hypothesis that some individuals are …

Plasticity in developmental programming has evolved in order to provide the best chances of
survival and reproductive success to the organism under changing environments …

Brain plasticity refers to the remarkable property of cerebral neurons to change their
structure and function in response to experience, a fundamental theoretical theme in the …

Context Our genome adapts to environmental influences, in part through epigenetic
mechanisms, including DNA methylation. Variations in the quality of the early environment …

Major depressive disorder is a heritable psychiatric syndrome that appears to be associated
with subtle cellular and molecular alterations in a complex neural network. The affected …

This paper reviews publications on developmental trajectories of disruptive behaviour (DB)
problems (aggression, opposition‐defiance, rule breaking, and stealing‐vandalism) over the …

Why do we grow up to look, act, and feel as we do? Through most of the twentieth century,
scientists and laypeople answered this question by referring to two factors alone: our …

Psychiatric phenotypes are multifactorial and polygenic, resulting from the complex interplay
of genes and environmental factors that act cumulatively throughout an organism's lifetime …