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Early Life Epigenetics, a new volume in the Translational Epigenetics series, provides an overview of early life epigenetics across reproductive medicine, embryology, immunology, metabolic processes, endocrinology, neuroscience, genetic psychology, and psychiatry. Mechanisms, methods, biological systems, and the clinical relevance of these findings are addressed in-depth by global experts in the field. In offering a unique, interdisciplinary perspective, this volume combines epigenetics of embryonic development and cell differentiation with findings from social and environmental epigenetics, as well as biological psychiatry. Here, discussion of early life epigenetics integrates cell studies and epidemiological data, timelines of epigenetic change, intervention and longitudinal studies of the long-term impact of environmental influences in early life, opening pathways for development of personalized therapeutics and new preventative measures.

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Dr. Vanessa Lux is a Research Fellow at AE Genetic Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum. Her research focuses on the physiological stress response influences in early psychobiological development, and how this is regulated by epigenetic mechanisms. She also has a passion for unsolved methodological and epistemological issues at the intersections of psychology and other life sciences. Further interests include developmental theory, embodiment theories and conceptual issues in empathy research and trauma research.

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