Schizophrenia is a thing we all carry a bit of.
Michael O’Donovan and Kenneth Kendler, eminences in psychiatric genetics for good reason, look at the implications of recent (early) progress in identifyi...
Tag: behavioral genetics
The Social Life of Genes
Today I was on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show talking about “The Social Life of Genes,” a feature I wrote that will appear appeared in Pacific Sta...
Orchids & Dandelions Abloom (Repost)
Can Genes Send You High or Low? The Orchid Hypothesis A-bloom by David Dobbs Originally posted March 2012* A few years ago, Arial Knafo, a psychologist a...
The Depression Map: Genes, Culture, Environment, and a Side of Pathogens
This post, originally published 14 September, 2010, examines how genes and culture can apparently shape one another’s development and expression — a topi...
Naomi Wolf’s “Vagina” and the Perils of Neuro Self-Help, or How Dupe-amine Drove Me Into a Dark Dungeon
Someone should have warned Naomi Wolf what slippery material she’d get encounter by taking a neuro angle into Vagina: A New Biography. As Zoe Heller expla...
A Beautiful, Conflicted Genome, All in the Mind and On the Radio
Australia RadioNational’s “All in the Mind” program has long been a favorite of mine, so it was a pleasure last week to be on the program disc...
Can Genes Send You High or Low? The Orchid Hypothesis A-Bloom
Author’s: This post is an expansion of a feature I published a few weeks ago in New Scientist. It draws from research for a book I’m now writing, Th...
Is Sensitivity a Curse or a Blessing? My Latest on The Orchid-Dandelion Hypothesis
As faithful readers know, I’m working on a book, provisionally titled The Orchid and the Dandelion and likely to be published next year, about the orchid-...
Enough With the ‘Slut Gene’ Already: Behaviors Ain’t Traits
Earlier this week, WBUR’s Here and Now ran a taped interview with me about “Beautiful Brains,” my recent National Geographic article on teen b...
Neuron Culture’s Best of Year
I resist best-of-year roundups when I see the heads — but then find I usually like reading them, and lo and behold, find it instructive to do my own. While most...