Epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in the processes through which social stressors
erode health in humans and other animals. Here I review progress in elucidating the …

Social environmental conditions, particularly the experience of social adversity, have long
been connected with health and mortality in humans and other social mammals. Efforts to …

Animal models of early-life stress and variation in social experience across the lifespan have
contributed significantly to our understanding of the environmental regulation of the …

Human health tends to mirror gradients in social standing related to class, ethnicity and race.
Past research in the social sciences suggests that environmental experiences related to …

There has been increasing interest in the possibility that behavioral experience—in
particular, exposure to stress—can be passed on to subsequent generations through …

Social experiences can have a persistent effect on biological processes leading to
phenotypic diversity. Variation in gene regulation has emerged as a mechanism through …

Exposures to stress at all stages of development can lead to long-term behavioural effects,
in part through changes in the epigenome. This review describes rodent research …

A deeper understanding of the pathomechanisms leading to stress-related psychiatric
disorders is important for the development of more efficient preventive and therapeutic …

Social interactions are a ubiquitous feature of the lives of vertebrate species. These may be
cooperative or competitive, and shape the dynamics of social systems, with profound effects …

the paper by Bagot et al.(31) shows how maternal behavior induces epigenetic
modifications of a glutamate receptor gene that affect synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus …