title: Parental brain and socioeconomic epigenetic effects in human development.
abstract: Critically significant parental effects in behavioral genetics may be partly understood as a consequence of maternal brain structure and function of caregiving systems recently studied in humans as well as rodents. Key parental brain areas regulate emotions, motivation/reward, and decision making, as well as more complex social-cognitive circuits. Additional key environmental factors must include socioeconomic status and paternal brain physiology. These have implications for developmental and evolutionary biology as well as public policy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. jamesswa@med.umich.edu
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Swain
authors.forename: Suzanne C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Perkins
authors.forename: Carolyn J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Dayton
authors.forename: Eric D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Finegood
authors.forename: S Shaun
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Ho
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005824:Genetics, Behavioral; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy