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rs6265 (A) is my bodyguard

It’s generally not fun to be browbeaten, bullied, bulldozed or downright oppressed – by the schoolyard bully or perhaps the micromanaging boss – in any form. While we’ve all been there – sometimes with...

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GPR6 teaches B.F. Skinner that actions have consequences

Image via Wikipedia I’m not sure what Skinner would have thought, but its clear that, nowadays, mechanisms of behavior can be understood in terms of dynamic changes in neural systems and, furthermore,...

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Humans & li’l birdies share genetic pathway for speech

Image via Wikipedia The evolution of language sometimes seems like a sort of jewel in the evolutionary crown of homo sapiens. Evidence of positive selection in the verbal dyspraxia FOXP2 gene, is often...

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Genetic ski patrol up and down the inverted U

The selection and dosing of medication in psychiatry is far from scientific – even though a great deal of hard science goes into the preclinical design and clinical development. One reason, among many,...

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Beauty is in the ventral striatum of the beholder

Image via Wikipedia You see a masterpiece while I see splatters of paint on a canvas. Why – in neural terms – do we see the same painting and feel so subjectively different ? Understanding the neural...

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3D brain atlas gets comprehensive genetic makeover

The brain is a wonderfully weird and strange organ to behold.  Its twists and folds, magnificent, in and of themselves, are even moreso when we contemplate that the very emotional experience of such...

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Indulging my inner rat over a few drinks

Image by Scrunchleface via Flickr A recent GWAS study identified the 3′ region of the liver- (not brain) expressed PECR gene (rs7590720(G) and rs1344694(T)) on chromosome 2 as a risk factor for...

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RARB says I was born when my late born striosomal cells were born

Image via Wikipedia Everyone has a birthday right. Its the day you (your infant self) popped into the world and started breathing, right?  But what about the day “you” were born – that is – “you” in...

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Coping with the shifting sands of development one grain at a time

Image by mbrownstone via Flickr Walter Dean Myers, an author of The Young Landlords and many other classic coming of age novels once remarked, “The special place of the young adult novel should be in...

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Splitting in defense of my DRD2 alleles

As a big fan of black and white photography, I’m intrigued by the concept of “Splitting” or so-called “black and white” thinking.  It’s something we all do to different degrees … when we avoid dealing...

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