Understanding health inequalities through the lens of social epigenetics

CL Martin, L Ghastine, EK Lodge… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Longstanding racial/ethnic inequalities in morbidity and mortality persist in the United States.
Although the determinants of health inequalities are complex, social and structural factors …

Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals

N Snyder-Mackler, JR Burger, L Gaydosh, DW Belsky… - Science, 2020 - science.org
BACKGROUND The social environment shapes human health, producing strong
relationships between social factors, disease risk, and survival. The strength of these links …

Why deaths of despair are increasing in the US and not other industrial nations—insights from neuroscience and anthropology

P Sterling, ML Platt - JAMA psychiatry, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
The US National Academy of Sciences reports rising mortality for US adults, most steeply for
White adults with a secondary education or less. The rise is largely attributable to deaths of …

Creating a Compassionate World: Addressing the Conflicts Between Sharing and Caring Versus Controlling and Holding Evolved Strategies

P Gilbert - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
For thousands of years, various spiritual traditions and social activists have appealed to
humans to adopt compassionate ways of living to address the suffering of life. Yet, along …

Maternal smoking during pregnancy induces persistent epigenetic changes into adolescence, independent of postnatal smoke exposure and is associated with …

S Rauschert, PE Melton, G Burdge, JM Craig… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Background: Several studies have shown effects of current and maternal smoking during
pregnancy on DNA methylation of CpG sites in newborns and later in life. Here, we …

Associations between indicators of socioeconomic position and DNA methylation: a scoping review

J Cerutti, AA Lussier, Y Zhu, J Liu, EC Dunn - Clinical Epigenetics, 2021 - Springer
Background Socioeconomic position (SEP) is a major determinant of health across the life
course. Yet, little is known about the biological mechanisms explaining this relationship. One …

A developmental framework for embodiment research: The next step toward integrating concepts and methods

V Lux, AL Non, PM Pexman, W Stadler… - Frontiers in systems …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Embodiment research is at a turning point. There is an increasing amount of data and
studies investigating embodiment phenomena and their role in mental processing and …

Epigenetics underlying susceptibility and resilience relating to daily life stress, work stress, and socioeconomic status

MG Gottschalk, K Domschke, MA Schiele - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Susceptibility and resilience to mental disorders result from a complex choreography of
gene–environment interactions with epigenetics at the intersection of external psychological …

Associations of DNA-methylation measures of biological aging with social disparities in child and adolescent mental health

L Raffington, PT Tanksley, L Vinnik… - Clinical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Children who experience environmental adversities are at increased risk of both
internalizing and externalizing disorders. Epigenetic mechanisms may regulate the …

Doing biocultural anthropology: Continuity and change

MK Hoke, LM Schell - American Journal of Human Biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Biocultural anthropology has long represented an important approach in the study of human
biology. However, despite demonstrated utility, its somewhat amorphous identity leaves …