Early life adversities and lifelong health outcomes: A review of the literature on large, social, long-lived nonhuman mammals

AM Dettmer, DE Chusyd - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Social nonhuman animals are powerful models for studying underlying factors related to
lifelong health outcomes following early life adversities (ELAs). ELAs can be linked to …

[HTML][HTML] The applied implications of epigenetics in anxiety, affective and stress-related disorders-A review and synthesis on psychosocial stress, psychotherapy and …

MA Schiele, MG Gottschalk, K Domschke - Clinical psychology review, 2020 - Elsevier
Mental disorders are highly complex and multifactorial in origin, comprising an elaborate
interplay of genetic and environmental factors. Epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA …

Sensitive periods for the effect of childhood adversity on DNA methylation: results from a prospective, longitudinal study

EC Dunn, TW Soare, Y Zhu, AJ Simpkin… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background Exposure to early-life adversity is known to predict DNA methylation (DNAm)
patterns that may be related to psychiatric risk. However, few studies have investigated …

Adversity exposure during sensitive periods predicts accelerated epigenetic aging in children

S Marini, KA Davis, TW Soare, Y Zhu… - …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Exposure to adversity has been linked to accelerated biological aging, which in
turn has been shown to predict numerous physical and mental health problems. In recent …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of early life stress on brain cytokines: A systematic review and meta-analysis of rodent studies

FS Lumertz, E Kestering-Ferreira, R Orso… - Neuroscience & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposure to early life stress (ELS) may lead to long-lasting neurobiological and behavioral
impairments. Alterations in the immune system and neuroinflammatory state induced by ELS …

The rhesus macaque as a success story of the Anthropocene

EB Cooper, LJN Brent, N Snyder-Mackler, M Singh… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Of all the non-human primate species studied by researchers, the rhesus macaque (Macaca
mulatta) is likely the most widely used across biological disciplines. Rhesus macaques have …

The epigenetics of perinatal stress

M Szyf - Dialogues in clinical neuroscience, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Early life adversity is associated with long-term effects on physical and mental health later in
life, but the mechanisms are yet unclear. Epigenetic mechanisms program cell-type-specific …

Epigenetics applied to psychiatry: clinical opportunities and future challenges

L Kular, S Kular - Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Psychiatric disorders are clinically heterogeneous and debilitating chronic diseases
resulting from a complex interplay between gene variants and environmental factors …

Associations between maternal risk factors of adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes and the offspring epigenetic clock of gestational age at birth

P Girchenko, J Lahti, D Czamara, AK Knight… - Clinical …, 2017 - Springer
Background A recent study has shown that it is possible to accurately estimate gestational
age (GA) at birth from the DNA methylation (DNAm) of fetal umbilical cord blood/newborn …

Genome-wide signatures of early-life stress: influence of sex

ST Parel, CJ Peña - Biological psychiatry, 2022 - Elsevier
Both history of early-life stress (ELS) and female sex are associated with increased risk for
depression. The complexity of how ELS interacts with brain development and sex to impart …