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01-03-2016 | Preface
The full translational spectrum of prevention science
Author:
Diana H. Fishbein, Ph.D.
Published in:
Translational Behavioral Medicine
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Issue 1/2016
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Excerpt
A new generation of research now demonstrates that individual differences in risk for psychopathology result from intrapersonal and environmental modulation of neurophysiologic and genetic substrates. This transdisciplinary model suggests that, in any given individual, the number of genetic variants implicated in high-risk behaviors and the way in which they are assorted and ultimately suppressed or activated by experiential and contextual factors will help to explain propensity and ultimate outcomes. Thus, risk can be amplified or reduced based on characteristics of an individual and his/her environment. …