How Epigenetics Could Revolutionize ADHD Care
What if we could improve early detection of ADHD before symptoms emerged?What if we could more accurately predict someone’s response to a medication and use that information to prescribe a personalized ADHD treatment plan, instead of going through unnecessary trial and error?These are among the exciting possibilities associated with epigenetic research.
As scientists uncover and better understand the epigenetic markers associated with ADHD, the hope is that this information will contribute to the development of new precision medicine toolkits for better detection, monitoring, and treatment formulation.
Still, today, we have more questions than answers about epigenetics and its potential utility for ADHD care.Genes play an important role in shaping a wide range of traits and characteristics, from hair and eye color to susceptibility to mental health conditions.
Yet, genetic influences are less ‘fixed’ than one might think. Epigenetics refers to the study of the biological processes that regulate gene activity during our lifetime, and the array of factors that can impact it.Think of epigenetic processes as collections of chemical “tags” that regulate where, when, and to what extent genes are activated or deactivated in the body.
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