NEUROPSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS AND EPIGENETICS

Preface
• Section I. Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Epigenetics: General Aspects
1. Introduction to Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Epigenetics
2. Environmental Factors and Epigenetics of Neuropsychiatric Disorders
3. Epigenetic Biomarkers in Neuropsychiatric Disorders
• Section II: Epigenetics of Neuropsychiatric Disorders
4. Epigenetics and Cognitive Disorders -Translational Aspects
5. Epigenetics in Pervasive Developmental Disorders - Translational Aspects
6. Epigenetic causes of intellectual disability – the fragile X syndrome paradigm
7. Epigenetics of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
8. The epigenetics of brain aging and psychiatric disorders
9. Epigenetic therapy may alleviate cognitive deficits in Down syndrome by downregulating overexpressed chromosome 21 gene products
10. Epigenetics and Multiple Sclerosis
11. Epigenetics and Migraine
12. The role of epigenetics in the pathophysiology of epilepsy
13. Epigenetic Dysregulation in Brain Tumors and Neurodevelopment
14. Epigenetics and Cerebrovascular Diseases
15. Epigenetics and Eating Disorders
16. Epigenetics in Obesity
17. Epigenetics and Drug Addiction-Translational Aspects
18. Epigenetics and Alcohol Use Disorders
• Section III: Summary and Outlook
19. Summary and Outlook

Features:
• Relates the effects of environmental stimuli on epigenetic states to neurological disease induction
• Analysis of the epigenetic basis for common neuropsychiatric disorders and how it guides treatment, providing insight and perspective to both clinicians and basic scientists
• Extensive use of diagrams, illustrations and tables, and graphical abstracts for each subsection permits rapid review

Authors
• Dag Yasui, Senior Project Scientist, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis, USA.
• Jacob Peedicayil, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
• Dennis R. Grayson, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA