Environmental exposures, psychosocial stressors and nutrition are all potentially important
influences that may impact health outcomes directly or via interactions with the genome or …

Neurodevelopmental programming—the implementation of the genetic and epigenetic
blueprints that guide and coordinate normal brain development—requires tight regulation of …

Parents' stressful experiences can influence an offspring's vulnerability to many pathological
conditions, including psychopathologies, and their effects may even endure for several …

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

The paternal heredity of obesity and diabetes induced by a high-fat and/or high-sugar diet
(Western-like diet) has been demonstrated through epidemiological analysis of human …

The global prevalence of obesity is increasing across most ages in both sexes. This is
contributing to the early emergence of type 2 diabetes and its related epidemic,. Having …

The global rise in obesity has revitalized a search for genetic and epigenetic factors
underlying the disease. We present a Drosophila model of paternal-diet-induced …

Obesity is highly prevalent, and its incidence is increasing. The previous study showing a
major effect of paternal obesity on metabolic health of offspring is confounded by …

For more than a century, clinical investigators have focused on early life as a source of adult
psychopathology. Early theories about psychic conflict and toxic parenting have been …

During the perinatal period, the brain is particularly sensitive to remodelling by
environmental factors. Adverse early‐life experiences, such as stress exposure or …