Research efforts during the past decades have provided intriguing evidence suggesting that
stressful experiences during pregnancy exert long-term consequences on the future mental …

Fibromyalgia is a disorder that is part of a spectrum of syndromes that lack precise
classification. It is often considered as part of the global overview of functional somatic …

The lifelong health of an individual is shaped during critical periods of development. The
fetus is particularly susceptible to internal and external stimuli, many of which can alter …

DNA methylation has become increasingly recognized in the etiology of psychiatric
disorders. Because brain tissue is not accessible in living humans, epigenetic studies are …

Biomarkers are naturally-occurring characteristics by which a particular pathological process
or disease can be identified or monitored. They can reflect past environmental exposures …

Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders are highly debilitating psychiatric conditions
that lack a clear etiology and exhibit polygenic inheritance underlain by pleiotropic genes …

Studies of the major psychoses, schizophrenia (SZ) and bipolar disorder (BD), have
traditionally focused on genetic and environmental risk factors, although more recent work …

Epigenetic modifications are increasingly recognized to play a role in the etiology and
pathophysiology of schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders with developmental …

Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder with a complex array of signs and symptoms
that causes very significant disability in young people. While schizophrenia has a strong …

Recent studies suggest that genetic and environmental factors do not account for all the
schizophrenia risk, and epigenetics also has a role in disease susceptibility. DNA …