
Stress and Epigenetics in Suicide
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Key Features
- Explores the neurobiology of stress and stress-related epigenetics, including discussion of the role of stress-induced epigenetic changes in behavioral, emotional, and cognitive mechanisms and whether these epigenetic marks are transgenerational
- Provides compelling biobehavioral models of suicide based on genetics, epigenetics, and behavioral adjustment
- Integrates social, psychological, and existential influences, giving readers a better understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of suicide risk factors
- Presents future directions for suicide-prevention strategies that incorporate recent research on genomics and stress resilience
Readership
Researchers and advanced students in neuroendocrinology, neurobiology, behavioral neuroscience, neurology, and neuropsychology; secondary audience is clinicians in psychiatry, psychology, and other mental health practices
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Recent Tendencies in Suicide and Mental Health Among Younger Generations and Current Explanations
- Abstract
- Youth suicides—is it really growing worldwide?
- Suicide among young people in the European continent
- Children and adolescent suicides in the countries of the former USSR
- Youth suicides in Asia and the far East
- Situation in North America, Australia, and New Zealand
- Suicide among young people in Latin America and Africa
- Youth is under threat—preliminary conclusions
- Youth mental health problems—are they growing too?
- Subjective complaints in adolescents and values shift as signs of stress
Chapter 2: Neurobiology of Stress—From Homeostasis to Allostasis and How Social Environment is Involved
- Abstract
- Psychosocial stress and modernization
- Neuroendocrinology of stress response—how psychosocial stress affects health
- From homeostasis to allostasis and how social environment is involved
- Stress and the brain—mental health consequences
- Stress across the life-span and social factors
Chapter 3: What Is Epigenetics? Is It Transgenerational?
- Abstract
- Epigenetics—new life of old ideas and modern definitions
- Molecular mechanisms of epigenetics and epigenetic inheritance—a short review
- Epigenetics and ontogenetic programming
- Epigenetic events in preembryonic and early embryonic development
- Nutrition, body growth, and epigenetics of older age diseases
- Epigenetics of ecological hazards, in aging and cancer
- Epigenetic paradigm and evolutionary biology
Chapter 4: Biological Embedding—How Early Life Stress Shapes Behaviors Later in Life and How Vulnerability is Built
- Abstract
- Early life stress and behavioral epigenetics—animal models
- Early life stress and epigenetic programming of behavior and mental health in humans
- Life-time stress experiences and epigenetics
- Biological embedding—how social environment “gets under the skin”
Chapter 5: Interactions and Integrations—Biobehavioral Model of Suicide Based on Genetics, Epigenetics, and Behavioral Adjustment
- Abstract
- Theories and models of suicidal behavior—how they encounter stress
- Heritability of suicide—classical behavioral genetics studies
- Suicide genetics—genes-to-environment interactions and vulnerable phenotypes
- Epigenetic findings in suicide
- Biobehavioral-psychological-existential model of suicide
Chapter 6: Ideas for Prevention
- Abstract
- Conceptual framework and prevention strategies limitations
- How resilience is built? The earlier—the better
- Adolescents’ resilience—the power of body and mind
- Adolescents’ resilience—the power of meaning
Product details
- No. of pages: 236
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: February 13, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128051993
- eBook ISBN: 9780128052860
About the Author
Vsevolod Rozanov
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