Severe or chronic stress and trauma can have a detrimental impact on health. Evidence
suggests that early-life adversity can become biologically embedded and has the potential …

The field of social and behavioral epigenetics examines the role of epigenetic modifications
to mediate the effect of psychosocial stressors on an individual's health and well-being …

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

While it is well-known that stress during development and adulthood can confer long-term
neurobiological and behavioral consequences, investigators have only recently begun to …

In utero exposure to environmental stress in both animals and humans could result in long-
term epigenome alterations which further lead to consequences for adaptation and …

Exposure to chronic stress, either repeated severe acute or moderate sustained stress, is
one of the strongest risk factors for the development of psychopathologies such as post …

Fetal exposure to prenatal stress can have significant consequences on short-and long-term
health. Epigenetic mechanisms, especially DNA methylation (DNAm), are a possible …

Early life stress in humans (ie maltreatment, violence exposure, loss of a loved one) and in
rodents (ie disrupted attachment or nesting, electric shock, restraint, predator odor) occurs …

This review integrates scientific knowledge obtained over the past few decades on the
biological mechanisms that contribute to the profound association between exposure to …

Traumatic stress is a type of environmental experience that can modify behavior, cognition
and physiological functions such as metabolism, in mammals. Many of the effects of …