Parenting moderates
a genetic vulnerability factor in longitudinal increases in youths» substance use
Not exact matches
Previous work has found
genetic factors that cause increased
vulnerability to staph infections, the flu, and fungal infections, among others.
Based on findings for a paper he and colleagues wrote more than 20 years ago on diathesis — a Greek term for disposition or
vulnerability, Vitaliano argues that psychiatric states and psychological outcomes are a function of exposure to stressors and
vulnerabilities (early family environment,
genetic factors, disposition).
In addition to environmental
factors, such as stress and social relationships, a person's
genetic make - up can also contribute to their
vulnerability to drug use and misuse as well as mental health problems.
«While there are clearly other
factors that can cause these types of abnormalities, including
genetic vulnerabilities, demonstrating that immune activation alone can produce these effects offers new hope for treatments that might reduce their severity, or prevent them altogether, in certain individuals.»
JAX researchers are at the forefront of understanding the
genetic factors involved in individuals»
vulnerability to addiction.
It involves a host of
genetic, lifestyle and environmental
factors, and is now known to comprise hundreds of diseases — each with unique features, driving forces and
vulnerabilities to treatments.
The diagram above shows how
genetic and prenatal
factors are believed to create a
vulnerability to schizophrenia.
The Path to Schizophrenia - The diagram above shows how biological,
genetic and prenatal
factors are believed to create a
vulnerability to schizophrenia.
Moreover, risk
factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of
genetic risk), someone else with much less
genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy
factors, pregnancy stress, other prenatal
factors, social stress, family stress or environmental
factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.
Many women find that estrogen withdrawal causes serious mood changes, which may relate to
genetic vulnerability combined with environmental
factors, the so - called GxE interface.
Risk for negative outcomes may be modified by both
genetic and environmental
factors, with the quality and availability of social supports among the most important environmental
factors in promoting resiliency in maltreated children, even in the presence of a genotype expected to confer
vulnerability for psychiatric disorder.
These behaviors appeared to be explained mostly by
genetic factors, suggesting that there is a
genetic vulnerability for developing antisocial behaviors which may also lead to addictive behaviors such as pathological gambling (Slutske, et al., 2001).
Many
factors may contribute to a child developing conduct disorder, including brain damage, child abuse,
genetic vulnerability, school failure, and traumatic life experiences.
We examined all publications from the ROOTS study up to July 2015, selected those examining adolescent mental health, and classified them as investigating (a) childhood risk
factors for adolescent depression, (b)
genetic and cognitive
vulnerability to depression in adolescence, (c)
genetic markers, childhood adversities, and neuroendophenotypes, (d) morning cortisol and depression, (e) physical activity and depression symptoms, and (f) the underlying structure of mental health in adolescence.
Our results suggest that some
genetic factors will increase an individual's
vulnerability to both MDD and CD in adolescence.
Across middle to late childhood, interpersonal cognitions begin to operate as
vulnerability - trait
factors for depressive symptoms, gradually reflecting distal
genetic risks on symptoms.
Our data suggest that SED's relationship with different neurobiological substrates, likely determined by each individual
genetic vulnerabilities and / or previous or co-occurring exposure to other environmental
factors, accounts, at least partially, to its differential associations with disparate domains of psychopathology.
Although the precise mechanisms of these sex - moderated
genetic vulnerabilities remain poorly understood, they appear to interact with environmental risk
factors including adverse rearing environments to potentiate the development of ASPD and BPD.
Although some studies found causal links in which psychological symptoms increase attachment insecurity, attachment insecurity can be viewed as a general
vulnerability to mental disorders, with the particular symptoms depending on
genetic, developmental, and environmental
factors [22].