Neurobiology of the parental brain
Elucidating the neural mechanisms of individual differences in maternal behavior and the effects of the environment on these neural circuits
Epigenetic effects of maternal behavior
Study of the epigenetic variation that emerges in response to variation in mother-infant interactions experienced during development
Prenatal programming of offspring development
The impact of prenatal exposure to stress, toxins, or nutritional variation on placental and offspring brain gene expression
Paternal-maternal interplay and offspring development
The impact of fathers on mothers and offspring and the epigenetic mechanisms through which this interplay occurs
Reversing the effects of early life adversity
Interventions targeted at ameliorating the effects of adverse prenatal and postnatal experiences