Yerkes researchers to present array of new data at Society for Neuroscience Meeting
...ic mechanisms underlying individual differences in personality traits by demonstrating an association between vasopressin receptor gene structure and social behavior in prairie voles. (1 pm 2 pm.) used gene therapy and transgenic rodent models to demonstrate that activation of the vasopressin receptor in a spe...Wolfgang Heckl awarded Descartes Prize for Science Communication
... for selecting Heckl: Professor Heckl is a dynamic personality and has received widespread recognition for his ability to make hard science understandable and entertaining to a broad range of audiences. Approximately 300 guests from the scientific community and politics, as well as journalists from throughout E...Your brain and you: Forecasting the ethical challenges ahead for neuroscience and society
...ding from brain scans in the near future. Certain personality traits, for example, are well enough correlated with patterns of brain activation that one can now pretty well identify extreme extraverts and introverts by imaging alone. A recent paper from Germany showed that homosexual pedophile men had distinct...Animal parenting, personality and pair-ups
...es have determined that dogs and hyenas have clear personality traits that can be measured like they are in humans. The researchers have studied characteristics such as fearfulness and anxiety, curiosity, and sociability. "Personality is not just unique to humans," Gosling said. Personality measurements have im...Finger length predicts physically aggressive personalities, study shows
...lain about five per cent of the variation in these personality measures, so research like this won't allow you to...r length can you tell you a little bit about where personality comes from, and that's what we are continuing to explore."...Nature helps create religious adults
... more consistent across the two ages. "Like other personality traits, adult religiousness is heritable, and though changes in religiousness occur during development, it is fairly stable," the authors conclude....Histamine, anxiety and alcoholism
... Oroszi added, is a dimensional measure of anxious personality or anxiety proneness. "Harm avoidance measures the range of 'normal' anxiety present in the general populations; it is not a measure of pathological anxiety, although individuals with clinical anxiety disorders tend to have high harm avoidance." Res...Quality of mom's time, not quantity, most important in early infant development
...elationships," said Dr. Huston. "Instead, mothers' personality characteristics, beliefs, and family circumstances affect both time allocation and parenting behavior. Mothers who give priority to spending time with their infants, whether or not they are also employed, are more likely to provide sensitive, high-qu...Rodent social behavior encoded in junk DNA
...could help account for differences in normal human personality traits, such as shyness, and perhaps influence disorders of sociability like autism and social anxiety disorders, suggest the researchers. The Emory researchers have found that the bonobo, an ape noted for its empathic traits, unlike its relative the...Junk DNA shapes social behavior
... account for some of the diversity in human social personality traits," explains Hammock. "For example, it may help explain why some people are naturally gregarious while others are shy." In particular, Young wants his research team to expound upon studies that have identified a link with autism....Environment more than genes determines child's social aggressiveness
...otion that a largely genetically based aggressive personality is initially expressed through physical means, which are then gradually replaced by socially aggressive strategies. "Whether and when this developmental shift occurs, however, may depend on the extent to which the child is exposed to an environment ...Environment, not genes, key in family relationships
...ternal question for so many human interactions and personality traits. Now, it appears, nature may play a larger role than nurture when it comes to family relationships between adolescents and their parents. Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and George Washington University in Washington, D.C., ...First evidence of brain abnormalities found in pathological liars
..., one woman); 16 who exhibited signs of antisocial personality disorder but not pathological lying (15 men, one woman); and 21 who were normal controls (15 men, six women). "We looked for things like inconsistencies in their stories about occupation, education, crimes and family background," said Raine, a psych...PET's imaging power may be best indicator for determining which patients develop Alzheimer's
...toms of memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, personality changes, disorientation and loss of language skills. "A high percentage of MCI patients will develop Alzheimer's disease within a year; however, some of these patients will never develop dementia and may even improve with time," said Drzezga. Most MC...New genetic link to high blood pressure found
...ceptors are linked to certain behavioral traits or personality types. But in recent years dopamine has also been ... a population-based study of genes associated with personality and behavioral traits, and were able to work with Alan to survey the Tecumseh study participants for...Rutgers researcher uncovers new gene for fear factor
...ost traumatic stress disorder, phobias, borderline personality disorder and other human anxiety diseases," said Shumyatsky, an assistant professor of genetics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. "It will provide important information on how learned and innate fear is experienced and processed, and ma...Creativity determines sexual success, research suggests
...s suggested an evolutionary reason for why certain personality traits that serious artists and poets were found t...patients perpetuated in society. He added: "These personality traits can manifest themselves in negative ways, in that a person with them is likely to be prone to...Study in Royal Society journal on link between creativity and mating success
...nd that poets and artists share some (but not all) personality characteristics with schizophrenia patients, and, ...re sexual partners than average. Thus, some of the personality traits predisposing to schizophrenia can actually be evolutionarily advantageous by increasing matin......letal structure. Beethoven experienced a change of personality and abdominal illness in his late teens and early 20s that persisted throughout his adult life. His abdominal symptoms and autopsy findings are both consistent with lead poisoning, Walsh said. There have been documented cases of deafness resulting fr......For women, there is additional risk conferred by a personality that is neurotic, anxious, and avoidant of harm, as well as a history of psychological, physical, or sexual abuse prior to age 18. These women may be using alcohol to 'self-medicate' their distress." - Daughters with a positive history of parenta...