Tomas Paus 
Population Neuroscience [PDF ebook] 

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Is Newton’s brain different from Rembrandt’s? Does a mother’s diet during pregnancy impact brain growth? Do adolescent peers leave a signature in the social brain? Does the way we live in our middle years affect how our brains age? To answer these and many other questions, we can now turn to population neuroscience.

Population neuroscience endeavors to identify environmental and genetic factors that shape the function and structure of the human brain; it uses the tools and knowledge of genetics (and the “omics” sciences), epidemiology and neuroscience. This text attempts to provide a bridge spanning these three disciplines so that their practitioners can communicate easily with each other when working together on large-scale imaging studies of the developing, mature and aging brain.

By understanding the processes driving variations in brain function and structure across individuals, we will also be able to predict an individual’s risk of (or resilience against) developing a brain disorder. In the long term, the hope is that population neuroscience will lay the foundation for personalized preventive medicine and, in turn, reduce the burden associated with complex, chronic disorders of brain and body.

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Table of Content

Terms and Concepts.- History of the Key Disciplines.- Enviromics.- Genomics.- Epigenomics.- Molecular Phenomics.- Systems Phenomics.- Cohorts.- Challenges.- Personalized Preventive Medicine.

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 184 ● ISBN 9783642364501 ● File size 6.8 MB ● Publisher Springer Berlin ● City Heidelberg ● Country DE ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5239138 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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