Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Epigenetics and Maternal Brain Evolution....Pages 3-20 Social Environment and DNA Methylation: A Mechanism for Linking Nurture and Nature....Pages 21-35 Sex Differences in Epigenetic Programming of Brain Differentiation: Implications for Mental Health and Disease....Pages 37-54 Front Matter....Pages 55-55 Phenotypic Plasticity, Pleiotropy, and the Growth-First Theory of Imprinting....Pages 57-72 The Imprinted Brain: How Genes Set the Balance Between Autism and Psychosis....Pages 73-96 Epigenetics at the Interface of Genetics and Environmental Factors in Autism....Pages 97-114 Epigenomic and Noncoding RNA Regulation in Addictive Processes....Pages 115-165 Epigenetic Therapies in Neurological Diseases....Pages 167-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Nutrition, Histone Epigenetic Marks, and Disease....Pages 197-217 Chromatin Switching and Gene Dynamics Associated with Type 2 Diabetes....Pages 219-233 Developmental Epigenetic Programming in Diabetes and Obesity....Pages 235-253 Front Matter....Pages 255-255 Developmental Reprogramming by Environmental Estrogens: How Early Life Exposures Affect Cancer Risk in Adulthood....Pages 257-267 Human Cancer Epigenetics....Pages 269-293 Front Matter....Pages 295-295 Legal and Ethical Implications of Epigenetics....Pages 297-308 Back Matter....Pages 309-339