Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast Series by Attitude Magazine.

Hello everyone, I'm Carol Fleck and on behalf of the Attitude Team, I'm pleased to welcome

you to today's ADHD Experts Presentation titled Epigenetics, Understanding Its Roll

in ADHD and Future Applications.

Leading today's presentation is Dr. Charlotte Cecil.

Dr. Cecil works at the Erasmus Medical Center located in the Netherlands.

She is an associate professor in biological psychopathology at the Department of Child and

Adolescent Psychiatry and Head of the In-depth Lab.

Her research focuses on the environmental and genetic factors that come together to influence

a baby's brain development and mental health from the time they're born through adolescence.

By identifying these factors early on, clinicians have a better chance to possibly detect, prevent,

or treat chronic mental health illness or, excuse me, mental illness later in life.

In today's webinar, we'll discuss the complicated and fascinating relationship between genes

and the environment.

This relationship is called Epigenetics and through this research, we now know that a

person's exposure to pollution, chronic stress, trauma, smoking, and other factors can

influence a baby's development even before they're born.

Today, we'll learn more about epigenetics and what it can tell us about our future.

We'd like to begin today's webinar by asking this poll question to our live audience.

What do you hope epigenetic research will one day lead to?

Please select your answers and comment in the text box under the video player to tell

us more.

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