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This special volume of Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science focuses on epigenetics and neuroplasticity.

Table of Contents

The Epigenetic Basis of Memory Formation and Storage
Timothy J. Jarome, Jasmyne S. Thomas and Farah D. Lubin
Epigenetics in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Carina Rampp, Elisabeth B. Binder and Nadine Provençal
Histone-Mediated Epigenetics in Addiction
Leah N. Hitchcock and K. Matthew Lattal
Modeling the Molecular Epigenetic Profile of Psychosis in Prenatally Stressed Mice
Alessandro Guidotti, Erbo Dong, Patricia Tueting and Dennis R. Grayson
Epigenetics of Depression
Sermsak Lolak, Pim Suwannarat and Robert H. Lipsky
Epigenetic Factors and Intellectual Disability: The Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome as a Paradigm of Neurodevelopmental Disorder with Epigenetic Origin
Jose P. Lopez-Atalaya, Luis M. Valor and Angel Barco
The Intergenerational Effects of Early Adversity
Janina Galler and Danielle Galler Rabinowitz
The Future of Neuroepigenetics in the Human Brain
Amanda Mitchell, Panos Roussos, Cyril Peter, Nadejda Tsankova and Schahram Akbarian

About the Author

Schahram Akbarian studied medicine at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. He is a board certified psychiatrist and molecular neuroscientist who trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge and the University of California at Irvine. In 2002, he joined the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester where he established a research program in psychiatric epigenetics and served as the Director of the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute. Presently, he heads the Division of Psychiatric Epigenomics in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is a former recipient of the Klerman award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Judith Silver Memorial award of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the Outstanding resident award of the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Eva King Killam Award for Outstanding Translational Research, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.Dr. Akbarian has been a principal investigator on National Institutes of Health-funded research projects since 2001and published close to 100 articles in scientific journals and book chapters. He is a member of professional societies such as the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and presently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and on Editorial Boards of various journals in the field Schahram Akbarian studied medicine at the Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany. He is a board certified psychiatrist and molecular neuroscientist who trained at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge and the University of California at Irvine. In 2002, he joined the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester where he established a research program in psychiatric epigenetics and served as the Director of the Brudnick Neuropsychiatric Research Institute. Presently, he heads the Division of Psychiatric Epigenomics in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He is a former recipient of the Klerman award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Judith Silver Memorial award of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, the Outstanding resident award of the National Institute of Mental Health, and the Eva King Killam Award for Outstanding Translational Research, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.Dr. Akbarian has been a principal investigator on National Institutes of Health-funded research projects since 2001and published close to 100 articles in scientific journals and book chapters. He is a member of professional societies such as the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and presently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation and on Editorial Boards of various journals in the field