Posted by SLS on January 17, 2009, at 20:58:53
In reply to Epigenetics and mental illness, posted by Larry Hoover on January 17, 2009, at 20:19:46
If you think about it, most cases of mental illness are epigenetic. The reason I say this is because there are always psychosocial environmental stressors and the resultant response in gene activity that creates changes in psychodynamics. Even the environment and events in the womb can be differential between identical twins. If the system is contemporaneously vulnerable to dysregulation with the exposure to these environmental stresses, gene activity - expression or non-expression - changes inappropriately. The native blueprints for checks and balances are disregarded.
- Scott
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