Epigenetics

(Erikson, 1997). “The ego mediates within outer events and inner responses, between past and future, and between the higher and lower self” (Tribe, 1982). The eight stages of development were composed of the following principles and ideologies: epigenetic principle, maturation, malignancy, crisis, and major life events that impact an individual’s culture, environment, religion and social…

The middle childhood includes ages between of 6 and 11 years which is crucial phase of development of cognition, emotional, and social behavior of an individual. The transition from early childhood to middle childhood displays modification in psychological world of the child. Middle childhood is a period where children acquire skills, and abilities for developing healthy social relationships and imbibe roles that will lay foundation for a lifetime. These Children gain in their height, weight and…

The nature vs. nurture controversy is now and always has been a big debate. Is the person your child becomes influenced by nature which is genetic or by nurture which is environmental. Is there really only one factor or does both nature and nurture play a part in child development? We all can agree that nature and nurture influences genetic and environmental development, cognitive development, and emotional or social development. Currently researchers are trying to figure out if nature or…

“Genes make a difference. Even if we were all raised in the same intellectually stimulating environment, we would have differing aptitudes. But life experiences also matter” This is a quote from the textbook Psychology by David Myers and Nathan Dewall. Intelligence is something complex and difficult to understand where it originates or how much a person can get of it. Our intelligence is based on our ability to learn and capability to understand our surroundings. Many people think how smart we…

1. Neurogenesis and memory 1.1. Neurogenesis in the hippocampus The hippocampus is a brain region that responsible for learning, memory and mood. One of the important reasons for memory and mood dysfunction is the dentate gyrus (DG) reduction [12, 13]. The subventricular zone (SVZ) and the subgranular zone (SGZ) of neural progenitor cells generated neurons and glia in adulthood and during adulthood [14]. Neurogenesis also have a role in mood regulation; the dorsal hippocampus is an…

What are stem cells? What good or bad opinions do people have of them? How can they be used to help people get better, and how are they currently being used? While there are good and bad things about stem cells, many things about stem cells need to be understood first. There are many properties of stem cells that no other type of cell has. One property that stem cells have is that they can renew themselves for long periods of time (Stem-5). This means that they create a large population of…

generation of the women experiencing the famine effects firsthand (Lumey, L and Stein, A 2000). Although the effect was reduced in the subsequent generations the negative effect on birth weight was still observable. This difference was observed is in epigenetic DNA alterations present 60 years later (Wells, J, 2010). This was due to improving conditions of the mothers in each generation most likely alongside expedited catch up growth during infancy. It provided evidence for the lower birth…

Tastes Like War: A Memoir (Cho, 2021) is the story of a daughter’s lived experience being raised by a mother who has schizophrenia. Throughout Grace’s life, her mother Koonja is continually impacted by the hardships that faced Korean women seeking freedom and beginning a new life in America. She tells the story of how the trauma experienced by Korean women such as being prostituted, losing, or being separated from family, and not engaging in aspects of their cultural identity, parallels to the…

Dean seems to be confused about his direction in life, mainly due to the lack of understanding and/or acceptance of past events. "Erikson 's theory of psychosocial development is based on the epigenetic principle, which states that development unfolds in a series of predetermined stages, that there is an optimal time for the ascendancy of a stage, and that the resolution of early stages greatly influences the outcomes of later stages" (Dunkel &…

Individuals and societies link to the childhood obesity epidemic Sociologists today believe that the obesity epidemic holds the responsibility to annihilate a staggering amount of the health benefits that have been associated with the rising childhood obesity epidemic recognised in the world today (Must, A., & Strauss, R. S. (2015). In 2015, approximately 41 million children below the age of 5 were affected by overweight or obesity. Today, progress in extinguishing childhood obesity has been…