Gene-Environment Transactions in Developmental Psychopathology

Patrick H. Tolan, Ph.D., is Professor of Education and of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia, where he is Director of Youth-Nex: The UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. Youth-Nex is a cross-university, multidisciplinary center to advance prevention of problems affecting youth and to promote healthy development. Before starting this center in August 2009, Dr. Tolan directed the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois for the previous 10 years, a multidisciplinary center of 50+ faculty focused on child and adolescent mental health, where he was Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the School of Public Health. He is now Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois. Bennett Leventhal, M.D., is Deputy Director of the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. He is also Professor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Irving B. Harris Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Emeritus at The University of Chicago and Professor of Psychiatry at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. Dr, Leventhal received his medical degree from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and, subsequently, completed his General Psychiatry as well as Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training at Duke University.

• 1.What Can and Should be the Role of Intervention Studies in GEX Research.- 2.Genetics, Behavioral Intervention, and Human Development.- 3.Gene-Environment Interaction in the Behavioral Sciences:  Findings, Challenges, and Prospects.- 4.Epigenetics and the Biology of Gene x Environment Interactions.- 5.Using Genetically Informed Designs to Understand the Environment:The Importance of Family-Based Approaches.- 6.Gene-Environment Correlations as a Source of Stability and Diversity in Development.- 7.Sampling in the Examination of Gene-Environmental Interactions within a Neurodevelopmental Disorder Framework.- 8.Do Gene by Environment Interactions Offer Potential Interventions Strategies in Anxiety Disorders?.- 9.Challenge and Potential for Research on Gene-Environment Interactions in Autism Spectrum Disorder.- 10.How Can GxE Research Help Prevent the Development of Chronic Physical Aggression?.- 11.Using Genetically Informed Prevention Trialsto Test Gene x Environment Hypotheses.- 12.Developmental Mechanisms in Gene by Intervention (GxI) Effects in the Fast Track Trial.- 13.Applying Behavioral Genetics Research to Inform the Prevention of Developmental Psychopathology:  Drawing from the Principles of Prevention Science.- 14.Challenges for Intervention Research Within the GEX Framework.