The Early Epigenetic Determinants of Social Stress and Emotion Regulation in Young Infants and Children
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Mental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 2728
Special Issue Editors
Interests: behavioral epigenetics; developmental psychobiology; early intervention; mother-infant interaction; stress regulation
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: behavioral epigenetics; developmental psychobiology; early intervention; mother-infant interaction; stress regulation, risk and protective factors in child development
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent advances in developmental psychobiology and behavioral epigenetics suggest that early experiences are crucial in shaping stress regulation, socio-emotional, and socio-cognitive development in infants and children. Early experiences—especially those occurring during the first thousand days after conception—may get under the skin and have a profound impact on the developing biology (e.g., DNA methylation, microRNA, mitochondria regulation, programming of the HPA axis, and telomere regulation) and phenotype (e.g., stress regulation, behavior regulation, socio-emotional skills, and socio-cognitive outcomes) of the offspring. Notably, both adverse and protective early experiences may associate with such long-lasting biomarkers and they may be involved in setting the long-term programming of behavioral, socio-emotional, and socio-cognitive developmental trajectories involved in stress regulation skills. Papers addressing these topics are invited for this Special Issue. We welcome studies involving human subjects and/or animal models. Different manuscript types will be considered, according to the journal guidelines.
Dr. Livio Provenzi
Dr. Serena Grumi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Behavioral epigenetics
- DNA methylation
- Emotion regulation
- Life adversity
- microRNA
- Parenting
- Social cognition
- Stress
- Telomere regulation
- Trauma
