[NIMC] Socio-economic status and health

[Allen Ivey]

an incredible array of studies important to multicultural issues and prevention. Edith Chen

I was particularly impressed by the following in her list. Here we see the importance of epigenetics and how environmental stressors reach right down to the most basic areas. I'm reading currently that this goes also to long-term mutations in DNA.

Ignore neuroscience and current research in epigenetics at your own risk!

Glucocorticoids are critical in learning.

 Life stress and diminished expression of genes

encoding glucocorticoid receptor and 2-adrenergic

receptor in children with asthma

Gregory E. Miller* and Edith Chen*

Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4

Edited by Burton H. Singer, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, and approved January 31, 2006 (received for review July 25, 2005)

In

http://www.psych.ubc.ca/~healthpsych/edith.htm

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