Anger management: Dopamine Receptor Allele and Nuclear Receptor Genes Are Associated with Anger and Aggression

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Everyone knows someone whose “default” emotion is anger. They are like a one-trick pony, they are sad, so they express anger. They are scared, so they act angry. They are frustrated, so they are angry. When in children, it is painful to watch. When in adults, it is scary.

World’s Most Dysfunctional Inspirational Poster [...]

Fragile X is possibly fixable!

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Neuron — Dölen et al.
New report: Potential relief for Fragile X sufferers.
Fragile X can be simulated in a mouse if you knock out a gene (FMR1). If you further block a receptor — called mGlu5 (metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 or MGR5) — the behavioral symptoms can altered. In the mouse model, the could genetically [...]

Fragile X research: A boy’s Fragile X gene reverts to normal and premutation carriers produce antisense DNA

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Imagine you are a 10 year old and your whole life you’ve lived with two mentally disabled brothers who have Fragile X. You are told you have the thing in your body that could make you have problems when you are older, too. And then one day, you are told you are fixed.
I can’t [...]

International Multi-Center ADHD Project

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

International Multi-Center ADHD Genetics Project
“The goal of the project is to complete a 600,000 tag SNP genome-wide association scan of 958 parent-child trios from the International Multisite ADHD Genetics (IMAGE) project, in order to assess the association of SNP markers with ADHD, analyze quantitative ADHD phenotypes, complete copy number analyses, assess parent of [...]

Dopamine is the new phen-fen?

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

 

 
Eating to Live, Living to Eat: Genes May Make Some People More Motivated to Eat, Perhaps Overeat
We knew that.
Here’s a press release from the American Psychological Association:
Newswise — Science has found one likely contributor to the way that some folks eat to live and others live to eat. Researchers at the University at Buffalo, [...]