Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med January 2017 PMID 27906527

Behavioral epigenetics.

David S Moore

Mentions

83
Peak: 52 in Jun 2024
across 3 sources since Oct 2013

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121

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Oct 2013 – Nov 2025

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What people are saying

The discussions reflect a strong interest in behavioral epigenetics, highlighting its relevance to personal development, trauma recovery, and scientific advancement. Words like 'fascinating,' references to pioneering researchers, and mentions of ongoing studies demonstrate engagement and recognition of its potential impact, though some acknowledge it as an emerging field still in early stages.

AgreementModerate agreement

Most discussions acknowledge the significance and potential of behavioral epigenetics, with some referencing pioneering researchers and the importance of this field.

InterestHigh interest

Posts show high curiosity about behavioral epigenetics, mentioning personal goals, educational pursuits, and its relevance to understanding human behavior.

EngagementHigh engagement

Several discussions involve detailed explanations, references to scientific work, and calls for future research, indicating deep engagement.

ImpactModerate impact

While many emphasize its theoretical importance and future potential, there is cautious optimism about its real-world applications, which moderates the perceived immediate impact.

Abstract in brief

  • Behavioral epigenetics explores how environmental factors like parenting, diet, and social status influence gene activity, shaping traits and development.
  • Unlike earlier views that focused solely on genetics and environment separately, recent research shows that experiences can modify how genes function, affecting health, personality, and even traits across generations.
  • This field is changing our understanding of evolution and human nature by revealing that some epigenetic changes can be passed down, meaning our experiences may influence future generations' biology.]

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Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D.
@FrankieDHeyward · X

Introducing the Heyward Nutritional and Behavioral Epigenetics Lab 2.0(25) https://t.co/i9xazJKmjT

Feb 13, 2025 · 104 likes · 6 shares · 5,274 followers View post →
Concordia Alumni
@ConcordiaAlumni · X

This week, we celebrate Great Concordian Michael Meaney, a pioneer in behavioral epigenetics and proud @FASConcordia alumnus! From Loyola to @Concordia, he discovered his passion and went on to transform biological psychiatry and neurodevelopment. Bravo! https://t.co/O5KImW6TL6

Jul 31, 2024 · 5 likes · 2 shares · 3,848 followers View post →
ADEBAYO OLUWAFEMI ADEKUNLE
@Kunlebayo2 · X

Exciting opportunity alert! @FrankieDHeyward at @UTSWMedCenter is hiring postdocs/Sr. Research Associates for their Nutritional & Behavioral Epigenetics Lab! If you're passionate about neuroepigenetic regulation of appetite during obesity and aging, reach out!

Jun 7, 2024 · 5 likes · 2 shares · 770 followers View post →
lowercase
@lowercaselevity · X

@sadjournoAL @mrstomlinstan @thefempire50 @BATD4D @MailOnline "the developing genome: an introduction to behavioral epigenetics" by david moore "the gendered brain: the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain" by gina rippon "sex itself: the search for male and female in the human genome" by sarah richardson

Sep 20, 2024 · 3 likes · 818 followers View post →
Emily Jackson
@emijackson.bsky.social · Bluesky

Enjoyed seeing old friends and hearing new findings at the Florida Keys Marine Science Conference last week! I got a chance to present a poster on some of the ongoing damselfish behavioral epigenetics work I’m running based on the experiments Dr. Lanie Esch completed when she was at FIU.

Nov 3, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
Nikhilesh Sawant
@NikhileshSaw · X

@AvantPrince_ This is a fascinating observation and you’re onto something. It’s a mix of psychoneuroendocrinology and behavioral epigenetics. When you start making aggressive, decisive moves, your hormonal environment shifts and thus higher testosterone, adrenaline regulation, cortisol

Aug 6, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share · 122 followers View post →

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Michael Hennessey
@MichaelRH0001 · X

evolutionary and behavioral epigenetics, all must become personal fighters prepared mentally and physically, ways to reduce many statistics, could have training classes and programs for women, way to combat panic attacks of ptsd if previously traumatized, get and gain power back

Nov 16, 2025 View post →
Mike Hennessey
@MikeRHennessey · X

designed just for that, concealed, your egg basket little red, evolutionary and behavioral epigenetics space spanish somewhere cave no better than 4500 to 4800 years ago when here last, better armed only difference, never all by one few some many, but it is 2025, not 50bce bc

Nov 11, 2025 · 36 followers View post →
Emily Jackson
@emijackson.bsky.social · Bluesky

Enjoyed seeing old friends and hearing new findings at the Florida Keys Marine Science Conference last week! I got a chance to present a poster on some of the ongoing damselfish behavioral epigenetics work I’m running based on the experiments Dr. Lanie Esch completed when she was at FIU.

Nov 3, 2025 · 2 likes View post →
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@Naagtannotnice · X

Spent the last 4hrs reading about behavioral epigenetics. It’s so interesting to mee

Oct 29, 2025 · 420 followers View post →
bobbinponytail.bsky.social
@bobbinponytail.bsky.social · Bluesky

They are lawless gangsters, living out their revenge plans bc they were hurt in their formative years and now we are all paying the price. Science will someday be able to find evidence of these behavioral abnormalities in cells BEFORE damage is widespread. Behavioral epigenetics. Scifi of my mind.

Oct 18, 2025 · 1 like View post →
Grok
@grok · X

@Gembappe9 @CIRESPILLIHP @Lila48131872915 @FollowingKnews1 @FfPew @chaotichermes You're welcome! If you'd like deeper dives into studies showing environmental factors like geography outweigh race in behavioral epigenetics—e.g., via PMC on adversity-driven gene expression—let me know.

Aug 10, 2025 · 6,648,649 followers View post →
Nikhilesh Sawant
@NikhileshSaw · X

@AvantPrince_ This is a fascinating observation and you’re onto something. It’s a mix of psychoneuroendocrinology and behavioral epigenetics. When you start making aggressive, decisive moves, your hormonal environment shifts and thus higher testosterone, adrenaline regulation, cortisol

Aug 6, 2025 · 1 like · 1 share · 122 followers View post →
Dr.Senthil Krishnasamy Ph.D
@sencajal · X

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Jul 18, 2025 · 54 followers View post →
Michigan Libertarians (Official)
@MILibertarians · X

@toodarkmark Human potential, development, health, and cognition are more complex and less understood than the few datapoints, statistical models, and outdated studies that are presented by the new crop of "race realists". Bjorklund, D. F. (2018). Behavioral Epigenetics: The Last Nail in the

May 29, 2025 · 966 followers View post →
Zack Hoosen
@ZackHoosen · X

@elonmusk Your grandparents were literally Nazis who moved to Apartheid SA in support of its ideology. You should be a study in behavioral epigenetics.

Mar 13, 2025 · 939 followers View post →
Zemen Sarah Berhe
@zemensberhe · X

RT @FrankieDHeyward: Introducing the Heyward Nutritional and Behavioral Epigenetics Lab 2.0(25) https://t.co/i9xazJKmjT

Feb 14, 2025 · 6 shares · 21,060 followers View post →
Dr Oumie Kuyateh, PhD
@popgen_oumie · X

RT @FrankieDHeyward: Introducing the Heyward Nutritional and Behavioral Epigenetics Lab 2.0(25) https://t.co/i9xazJKmjT

Feb 14, 2025 · 6 shares · 2,509 followers View post →
Dr. Travis Hodges
@TravisEHodges · X

RT @FrankieDHeyward: Introducing the Heyward Nutritional and Behavioral Epigenetics Lab 2.0(25) https://t.co/i9xazJKmjT

Feb 13, 2025 · 6 shares · 1,331 followers View post →
itstomd
@itstomd · X

@FrankieDHeyward A Behavioral Epigenetics Lab studies how epigenetic modifications influence behavior, cognition, and mental health. Epigenetics refers to changes in gene expression that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence but are regulated by mechanisms such as DNA methylation, https://t.co/Kd5H4Nesee

Feb 13, 2025 · 432 followers View post →
Tom Varghese Jr. MD, MS, MBA, FACS, MAMSE
@TomVargheseJr · X

RT @FrankieDHeyward: Introducing the Heyward Nutritional and Behavioral Epigenetics Lab 2.0(25) https://t.co/i9xazJKmjT

Feb 13, 2025 · 6 shares · 25,896 followers View post →
James R. Allen
@JamesRAllen6 · X

RT @FrankieDHeyward: Introducing the Heyward Nutritional and Behavioral Epigenetics Lab 2.0(25) https://t.co/i9xazJKmjT

Feb 13, 2025 · 6 shares · 861 followers View post →
Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D.
@FrankieDHeyward · X

Introducing the Heyward Nutritional and Behavioral Epigenetics Lab 2.0(25) https://t.co/i9xazJKmjT

Feb 13, 2025 · 104 likes · 6 shares · 5,274 followers View post →
Dr Sundardas
@DrSundardasa · X

Are Ancestral Wounds Blocking your Success? According to the new insights of behavioral epigenetics, traumatic experiences in our past, or in our recent ancestors’ past, leave molecular scars adhering to our DNA. Read more: https://t.co/DHgcZPdPT2 https://t.co/k3zYe5qsuw

Feb 10, 2025 · 546 followers View post →
noxmonet.bsky.social
@noxmonet.bsky.social · Bluesky

I want to study behavioral epigenetics. The biggest problem I am finding is trying to find a program that is behavioral epigenetics and not just genetics and not just psychology. I need that mushed up love child to get both

Jan 29, 2025 View post →
Dr Sundardas
@DrSundardasa · X

Are Ancestral Wounds Blocking your Success? According to the new insights of behavioral epigenetics, traumatic experiences in our past, or in our recent ancestors’ past, leave molecular scars adhering to our DNA. Read more: https://t.co/DHgcZPdi3u https://t.co/r7kANPMbCz

Jan 20, 2025 · 546 followers View post →
tcandrey
@tcandrey180913 · X

Ebook PDF The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics.|DOWNLOAD HERE >>> https://t.co/XZiQq4RwSN https://t.co/heuTHt11Tj

Dec 30, 2024 View post →
C.B. Huckabee
@cb_huckabee · X

@JoyceCarolOates Too often people go the either or route to serve their own biases. It’s always both. Temperament is inborn, highly heritable, and seems to (at least so far) be biologically mediated. Personality = (temperament+experience)/time Eventually, behavioral epigenetics will tell more.

Dec 20, 2024 · 554 followers View post →
Tawny Hammett-Irvine
@tlhammett · X

@DaBachsta @ZCesspool @Nexuist Learned it from a book I read, “The Developing Genome - An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics” published 2015

Nov 25, 2024 · 300 followers View post →
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@Redacted369 · X

Behavioral Epigenetics https://t.co/tXm4ZVxDf1

Nov 5, 2024 · 884 followers View post →
David Strumfels
@DJStrumfels · X

A Medley of Potpourri: Behavioral epigenetics https://t.co/YilhqBjgB8

Oct 14, 2024 · 465 followers View post →
lowercase
@lowercaselevity · X

@sadjournoAL @mrstomlinstan @thefempire50 @BATD4D @MailOnline "the developing genome: an introduction to behavioral epigenetics" by david moore "the gendered brain: the new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain" by gina rippon "sex itself: the search for male and female in the human genome" by sarah richardson

Sep 20, 2024 · 3 likes · 818 followers View post →
Arts & Science
@FASConcordia · X

RT @ConcordiaAlumni: This week, we celebrate Great Concordian Michael Meaney, a pioneer in behavioral epigenetics and proud @FASConcordia a…

Aug 1, 2024 · 2 shares · 1,724 followers View post →
Concordia University
@Concordia · X

RT @ConcordiaAlumni: This week, we celebrate Great Concordian Michael Meaney, a pioneer in behavioral epigenetics and proud @FASConcordia a…

Jul 31, 2024 · 2 shares · 76,564 followers View post →
Concordia Alumni
@ConcordiaAlumni · X

This week, we celebrate Great Concordian Michael Meaney, a pioneer in behavioral epigenetics and proud @FASConcordia alumnus! From Loyola to @Concordia, he discovered his passion and went on to transform biological psychiatry and neurodevelopment. Bravo! https://t.co/O5KImW6TL6

Jul 31, 2024 · 5 likes · 2 shares · 3,848 followers View post →
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@gavntlet · X

It seems obvious that there is a strata of hamartio-behavioral epigenetics. The soul may be created ex nihilo, but the bio-psycho-social and psycho-spiritual contingency into which it is birthed surely is intergenerationally conditioned by world, flesh and devil.

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Carl Zimmer
@carlzimmer.com · Bluesky

Q: Isn't behavioral epigenetics another rabbit hole? @David_Dobbs: Yup

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