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Childhood intelligence is heritable, highly polygenic and associated with FNBP1L

By B Benyamin et al. February 2014 Molecular Psychiatry 19:2;253-258. Abstract Intelligence in childhood, as measured by psychometric cognitive tests, is a strong predictor of many important life outcomes, including ... Read more »

Life Extension Factor Klotho Enhances Cognition

By Dena B. Dubal May 22, 2014 Cell Reports 7, 1-12 Abstract Aging is the primary risk factor for cognitive decline, an emerging health threat to aging societies worldwide. ... Read more »

Environment as important as genes in autism, study finds

By Kate Kelland Reuters May 3, 2014 "Environmental factors are more important than previously thought in leading to autism, as big a factor as genes, according to ... Read more »

Klotho gene variant not only helps slow aging but also helps old people stay sharp

By Anne Francis Tech Times May 9, 2014 "A gene variant called KL-VS linked to longer life was also found to make humans smarter and may help ... Read more »

Neuropsychosocial profiles of current and future adolescent alcohol misusers

By Robert Whelan et al. Nature 2 July 2014 Abstract A comprehensive account of the causes of alcohol misuse must accommodate individual differences in biology, psychology and environment, ... Read more »

Can We Predict Which Teens Are Likely To Binge Drink? Maybe

By Maanvi Singh NPR 2 July 2014 More than half of 16-year-olds in the United States have tried alcohol. While many of them learn to drink responsibly, ... Read more »

Alzheimer’s Disease: The Forgetting Gene

By Laura Spinney Nature June 4, 2014 For decades, most researchers ignored the leading genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease. That is set to change. To read the ... Read more »

Gene Panel Helps Predict Alcoholism Risk

The Suncoast News May 29, 2014 A group of 11 genes can predict whether an individual is at increased risk of alcoholism, a research team from ... Read more »

Genetic risk prediction and neurobiological understanding of alcoholism

By DF Levey et al. Translational Psychiatry (2014) 4, e391 We have used a translational Convergent Functional Genomics (CFG) approach to discover genes involved in alcoholism, ... Read more »

Genome-Wide Association Study of Opioid Dependence: Multiple Associations Mapped to Calcium and Potassium Pathways

Joel Gelernter et al. Biological Psychiatry 2014;76:66-74. Background We report a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of two populations, African-American and European-American (AA, EA) for opioid dependence (OD) ... Read more »
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