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Published in: Translational Behavioral Medicine 1/2016

01-03-2016 | Preface

The full translational spectrum of prevention science

Author: Diana H. Fishbein, Ph.D.

Published in: Translational Behavioral Medicine | Issue 1/2016

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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. …
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Title
The full translational spectrum of prevention science
Author
Diana H. Fishbein, Ph.D.
Publication date
01-03-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Translational Behavioral Medicine / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 1869-6716
Electronic ISSN: 1613-9860
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13142-016-0396-6

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