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Dr. Marco Boksrco Boks

Psychiatrist and researcher at the University Medical Centre

Dr. Marco Boks

Biography

Dr. Marco Boks is a psychiatrist and researcher at the University Medical Centre where he leads the stress and trauma program. One of the key questions of his research is what the biological mechanisms are that underlie the increased risk to many psychiatric and somatic disorders in individuals that suffered traumatic life events. One way to investigate this is to measure changes in the working of DNA. These epigenetic changes can be monitored using epigenetic clocks that report of several aging mechanism.
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