Stress: Genetics, Epigenetics and Genomics Volume 4: Handbook of Stress

This fourth volume in the Handbook of Stress series, Stress: Genetics, Epigenetics and Genomics, deals with the influence that genetics, epigenetics, and genomics have on the effects of and responses to stress. Chapters refer to epigenetic mechanisms that involve DNA methylation, histone modification, and/or noncoding RNA-associated gene activation or silencing. There is also coverage of epigenetic mechanisms in stress-related transgenerational transmission of characteristics, and how these may help explain heritability in some complex human diseases.

The Handbook of Stress series, comprised of self-contained volumes that each focus on a specific stress area, covers the significant advances made since the publication of Elsevier?s Encyclopedia of Stress (2000 and 2007). Volume 4 is ideal for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty and clinicians interested in stress genetics, epigenetics and genomics involved in neuroendocrinology, neuroscience, biomedicine, endocrinology, psychology, psychiatry and the social sciences

1. Genetic Dissection of Neuropeptide Circuits Mediating Psychosocial Stress
YAIR J. BEN-EFRAIM AND ALON CHEN
2. Genetic Variation of HPA Axis Activity and Function in Farm Animals
PIERRE MORMEDE AND ELENA TERENINA
3. MicroRNAs and the Response to Stress
SHARON L. HOLLINS AND MURRAY J. CAIRNS
4. Stress-Mediated Regulation of the DNA Methylome
ALEC LINDSAY WARD DICK AND ALON CHEN
5. Genomics and Epigenetics of Plant Abiotic Stress
SUPRASANNA PENNA, POOJA NEGI, AND VINAY KUMAR
6. The Long-Term Biological and Clinical Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect
JONATHAN PARKER AND CHARLES B. NEMEROFF
7. Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of the Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone System and Genetic Associations With Neuropsychiatric Disorders
JAN M. DEUSSING
8. Circadian Clocks, Stress, and Psychiatric Disorders
CHARLOTTE KLING AND DOMINIC LANDGRAF
9. Effects of Psychological Stress on Telomeres as Genome Regulators
LAURA C. ETZEL AND IDAN SHALEV
10. From Exaptation to Adaptation: Stress, Transposons, and Functions of the Deep Genome
ANDREW A. BARTLETT AND RICHARD G. HUNTER
11. Fetal Alcohol Exposure Impairs the Function of Hypothalamic Proopiomelanocortin Neurons via a Circadian Mechanism
DIPAK K. SARKAR
12. Molecular Signaling in the Gut–Brain Axis in Stress
AMANDA J. PAGE AND HUI LI
13. Stress Responsiveness of BDNF/TrkB Signaling in the Neuroendocrine System and Future Implications
I. AZOGU-SEPE AND H. PLAMONDON
14. Estradiol Protects Hypothalamic Neurons Against Insulin Resistance
OLINE K. RØNNEKLEIV AND MARTIN J. KELLY
15. Genetics of Stress Responsiveness
YVETTE M. WILSON, JENNY M. GUNNERSEN, AND MARK MURPHY
16. miRNAs of Astrocyte-Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles Potentially Modulate Adult Neurogenesis Under Stress Conditions
FELIPE BUSTAMANTE, MAXS M_ENDEZ-RUETTE, URSULA WYNEKEN, LUIS FEDERICO BA´ TIZ, AND ROBERTO HENZI
17. Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) and Corticotropin-Releasing Factor (CRF): An Evolutionary History of Interaction
DAVID A. LOVEJOY AND DAVID W. HOGG
18. New Vistas of Old Terrains: Magnocellular Vasopressin and the Neuroendocrine Response to Stress
FERENC A. ANTONI
19. Responding to Stress: Genomic and Nongenomic Actions of Corticosteroid Receptors in the Brain
SAMANTHA N. HAQUE, KAREN R. MIFSUD, EMILY M. PRICE, AND JOHANNES M.H.M. REUL
20. Mutations of the Human Mineralocorticoid Receptor and Targeted Deletion in Model Organisms
TIMOTHY J. COLE, PETER J. FULLER, AND MORAG J. YOUNG
21. Mechanisms Regulating Hypoxia Tolerance in Drosophila and Humans
DAN ZHOU, PRITI AZAD, TSERING STOBDAN, AND GABRIEL G. HADDAD
22. Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Its Role in Stress-Related Disorders
MICHAEL NOTARAS AND MAARTEN VAN DEN BUUSE
23. Zebrafish Models for Stress Research
MURILO S. DE ABREU, KONSTANTIN A. DEMIN, TAMARA G. AMSTISLAVSKAYA, TATYANA STREKALOVA, AND ALLAN V. KALUEFF
24. Epigenetic Effects of Exercise on Human Skeletal Muscle
MACSUE JACQUES, SHANIE LANDEN, ANDREW S. PALMER, AND NIR EYNON
25. Exercise and/or Stress Effects on the Epigenetic Clock
SARAH VOISIN
26. Telomeres and Early-Life Stress
STEFANIE MAYER, QUINN CONKLIN, SAMUEL J. RIDOUT, AND KATHRYN K. RIDOUT
27. Molecular Responses to Heat Stress in Escherichia coli
XU-TING WANG, SHI-DI XIAO, AND BIN-GUANG MA
28. Epigenetics and the Impact of Early-Life Stress Across Generations
GRETCHEN VAN STEENWYK AND ISABELLE M. MANSUY
29. Corticolimbic Circuitry and Genomic Risk for Stress-Related Psychopathology
SARAH E. PAUL, NOURHAN M. ELSAYED, ERIN BONDY, AND RYAN BOGDAN

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Dr. Fink is Honorary Professor in the University of Melbourne and Professorial Research Fellow at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health. Formerly, he was Scientific Director of the Mental Health Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Before returning to Melbourne in 2003, Dr. Fink was University Lecturer in Human Anatomy and Fellow in Physiology and Medicine at Brasenose College and the University of Oxford and served for nearly 20 years as CEO and Director of the UK Medical Research Council’s Brain Metabolism Unit in Edinburgh. He gained distinction through his seminal research discoveries in neuroendocrinology and psychopharmacology published in over 360 scientific papers. Dr. Fink served as President of the European Neuroendocrine Association. His distinctions include Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Biological Society, Fellow of the Physiological Society, and Honorary Member of the British Society for Neuroendocrinology. Fink was Honorary Professor in the University of Edinburgh, delivered the inaugural Geoffrey Harris Prize Lecture of the British Physiological Society, and the Wolfson Lecture. In 1979 he was awarded the Royal Society - Israel Academy Exchange Fellowship which enabled him to spend a research year at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot Israel. In 2000 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology. His membership of learned societies includes Emeritus member of the Society for Neuroscience, the Endocrine Society and the Genetics Society of America.
Dr. Fink has edited several scientific books with Elsevier, including Stress Science: Neuroendocrinology (2009), Stress Consequences: Mental, Neuropsychological and Socioeconomic (2009), Stress of War, Conflict and Disaster (2010), the Handbook of Neuroendocrinology (2011), and most notably the 4-volume second edition of the Encyclo