Zebrafish reveal how environment influences social behavior in autism

Your surroundings may influence your social behavior more than you realize. New research from the Brain Research Institute at ...
Forbes

Groupthink May Be Programmed Into DNA, New Genetics Research Finds

New evidence reveals that behavior, including hive mentality or groupthink, may be predetermined by genetics. Generally, we consider behavior to be learned. By interacting with the world, different ...
University of California, Davis

Using Genetics to Understand Decision-Making in Monkeys

Abigail Morris first visited the Peruvian Amazon when she was 6 years old. Now, as a Ph.D. candidate in the Animal Behavior ...
Medical Xpress

Neuroscientists investigate developmental and genetic factors affecting sleep behavior

Mubarak Hussain Syed, an assistant professor of Biology at The University of New Mexico, along with a team of UNM students and collaborators at the University of Pennsylvania, is investigating how ...
UPI

Your damaging adult traits could be tied to a teenage friend's genes, study says

Aug. 7 (UPI) --Knowing that your high school friends' genes may affect your risk of substance abuse and psychiatric conditions later in life could make it possible for intervention before these ...
Psychology Today

Decoding Nature and Nurture: Insights From Twin Studies

The nature versus nurture conundrum is an eternal debate. A recent study of 175 identical and 88 fraternal adult twins explores some of the questions of how genes and the environment determine the ...
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Non-inherited parental genes may still shape children's education and mental health

Parents' genes—even when not directly inherited by a child—may play a role in their educational and mental health outcomes, finds a new report by UCL researchers. The report, "Understanding the ...