Early-Life Adversity and Epigenetic Changes

Benoit Labonté; Adel Farah; Gustavo Turecki

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139424745.012

9 - Early-Life Adversity and Epigenetic Changes

Implications for Understanding Suicide

from Section Two - Biosocial Mechanisms in Mental Health and Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2015

Benoit Labonté ,

Adel Farah and

Gustavo Turecki

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Laurence J. Kirmayer ,

Robert Lemelson and

Constance A. Cummings

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Laurence J. Kirmayer: Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Robert Lemelson: Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Constance A. Cummings: Affiliation:
Foundation for Psychocultural Research, California

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Information: Re-Visioning Psychiatry
Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health
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