PNB Genetics News & Research
The Thorny Ethics of Prenatal Testing
By: Erik Parens
Time
February 5, 2014
Recent technological advances raise a pressing ethical question: Should prospective parents be able to acquire whatever genetic information they ... Read more »
Who’s afraid of math? Study finds some genetic factors
Science Daily
March 17, 2014
A new study of math anxiety shows how some people may be at greater risk to fear math not only because ... Read more »
Arguments for the Sake of Endophenotypes: Examining Common Misconceptions About the Use of Endophenotypes in Psychiatric Genetics
By: David C. Glahn, Emma E.M. Knowles, D. Reese McKay, Emma Sprooten,
Henriette Ravento´s, John Blangero, Irving I Gottesman, and Laura Almasy
January 24, 2014
American Journal ... Read more »
Psychiatric Genetics Hold Great Promise
By: Joan Arehart-Treichel
March 20, 2014 DOI: 10.1176/appi.pn.2014.3a1
Psychiatric News
While clinical applications of genetic findings relevant to psychiatric disorders are still in their infancy, the field ... Read more »
Reviewing Self-Injuries in Macaques: The Role of Early Experience and Genetics in an Integrated Non-Human Model
By: Juan D. Molina, Mario de la Calle Real, Alfonso Ramos Ruiz, Francisco López-Muñoz, Maria José Muñoz Algar, Cristina Andrade-Rosa, Francisco Toledo-Romero
Journal of Behavioral ... Read more »
Critical role of one gene to our brain development
Health Canal
03/14/2014
New research from the University of Adelaide has confirmed that a gene linked to intellectual disability is critical to the earliest stages ... Read more »
NIH rethinks psychiatry trials
By: Sara Reardon
March 14, 2014
Nature News
Mental-health division will no longer fund research aiming to relieve symptoms without probing underlying causes.
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Public Understandings of Addiction: Where do Neurobiological Explanations Fit?
By: Carla Meurk, Adrian Carter, Wayne Hall, Jayne Lucke
Neuroethics
April 2014
Volume 7, Issue 1, pp51-62
Abstract
Developments in the field of neuroscience, according to its proponents, offer ... Read more »
After Death, Twins’ Brains Reveal Similar Damage
Posted by Suzanne Wu on February 26, 2014
Despite widespread use of a single term, Alzheimer’s disease is actually a diverse collection of diseases, symptoms, ... Read more »
Convergence of Advances in Genomics, Team Science, and Repositories as Drivers of Progress in Psychiatric Genomics
By Thomas Lehner, Geetha Senthil, and Anjene M. Addington
Biological Psychiatry (2014)
After many years of unfilled promise, psychiatric genetics has seen an unprecedented number of successes ... Read more »
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