LATEST PSYCHOLOGY

Many mental health difficulties have developmental origins. Understanding the mechanisms for how psychosocial experiences are biologically embedded and influence lifelong development is a key challenge for the mental health disciplines. In recent years, epigenetic processes have emerged as a potential mechanism mediating the long‐lasting vulnerability following the experience of adversity. Animal models provide evidence that early‐life adversity can produce enduring epigenetic modifications in...

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