Maternal food restriction is associated with the development of obesity in offspring. This
study examined how maternal undernutrition in sheep affects the fetal hypothalamic …

Introduction: Eating disorders (EDs) have increased globally in women of childbearing age,
related to the concern for body shape promoted in industrialized countries. Pregnancy may …

The hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis has been the focus of extensive research with
regard to the phenotypic plasticity this system shows in response to environmental …

Child development might be conceptualized as experiences becoming sculpted in the
organism's DNA through methylation, one of the major epigenetic mechanisms of change …

Stressful life events, especially in childhood, can have detrimental effects on health and are
associated with a host of psychiatric and gastrointestinal disorders including irritable bowel …

Dynamic regulation of chromatin structure in postmitotic neurons plays an important role in
learning and memory. Methylation of cytosine nucleotides has historically been considered …

The ability of an environmental factor or toxicant to promote a phenotype or disease state not
only in the individual exposed, but also in subsequent progeny for multiple generations, is …

Objective: Epigenetic mechanisms have been described in several mental disorders, such
as mood disorders, anxiety disorders and schizophrenia. However, less is known about the …

Abstract This Special Issue is devoted to the illustration and discussion of three key
demographic variables (sex/gender, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic status) that have …

Late-onset Alzheimer's disease seems to be a multi-factorial disease with both genetic and
non-genetic, environmental, possible causes. Recently, epigenomics is achieving a major …