Toward a new biology of social adversity

Chris Engel 11/5/1210:30 PM

"What then are the developmental and biological consequences of early exposures to penury, strife, and hardship? How do experiences of childhood adversity get “under the skin” and affect physiological and cellular pathways leading to disease susceptibility? How are the adverse circumstances of children “biologically embedded” into the molecular, genomic systems that determine expressions of vulnerability and resilience? Why do some children flourish, whereas most others founder in the face of severe childhood conditions?"

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/suppl.2/17143.full

W. Thomas Boyce, Marla B. Sokolowski, and Gene E. Robinson. Toward a new biology of social adversity. PNAS 2012 109 (Supplement 2) 17143-17148; published ahead of print October 8, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1121264109

Colloquia website: http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-colloquia/completed_colloquia/agenda-biological-embedding.html

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