Gene-Environment Interplay and the Biology of Misfortune

Dr. Thomas Boyce
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Emeritus, University of California, San Francisco
Head, Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco

Educational Objectives:

1. Explain the neurobiological consequences of exposures to toxic stress
2. Understand the social stratification of stress-related morbidities
3. Recognize the origins and implications of individual differences in stress reactivity
4. Recount the role of the epigenome in the genesis of such difference