Our Genes, Our Choices How Genotype and Gene Interactions Affect Behavior

Name: Our Genes, Our Choices How Genotype and Gene Interactions Affect Behavior
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ISBN: 9780123969521

ISBN-10: 0123969522

ISBN-13: 9780123969521

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Goldman

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Are people free to make choices, or do genes determine behavior? Paradoxically, the answer to both questions is "yes," because of neurogenetic individuality, a new theory with profound implications. This theory emerged from gene discoveries by Dr. Goldman and his colleagues which have been recently published in 'Nature'. Genetic studies reveal pathways from DNA to behavior that are helping us understand the diversity of human behavior and behavior of other species.In this book, the complexity of human behavior and a person's ability to choose is explained as deriving from a relatively small number of genes which direct neurodevelopmental sequence. The author uses judicial, political,…

Book details

List price: $74.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

David Goldman Dr. Goldman received his B.S. from Yale University in 1974. He received his M.D. degree in 1978 and completed residency training in psychiatry in 1979, both at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Dr. Goldman joined the NIAAA in 1979 and has been chief of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics since 1991. Throughout his career, Dr. Goldman has focused on the identification of genetic factors responsible for inherited differences in behavior. His laboratory is currently exploring the genetics of alcoholism, substance abuse, and related health problems.



A Note on Gene and Protein Symbols


Foreword


Preface


About the Author



The Neurogenetic Origins of Behavior



The Jinn in the Genome



2B or Not 2B?



Stephen Mobley and His X-Chromosome



Dial Multifactorial for Murder: The Intersection of Genes and Culture



Distorted Capacity I: The Measure of the Impaired Will



Distorted Capacity II: Neuropsychiatric Diseases and the Impaired Will



Inheritance of Behavior and Genes "For" Behavior: Gene Wars



The Scientific and Historic Bases of Genethics: Who Watches the Geneticists and by What Principles?



The World is Double Helical: DNA, RNA and Proteins, in a Few Easy Pieces



The Stochastic Brain: From DNA Blueprint to Behavior



Reintroducing Genes and Behavior



Warriors and Worriers



How Many Genes Does it Take to Make a Behavior?



The Genesis and Genetics of Sexual Behavior



Gene By Environment Interaction



The Epigenetic Revolution: Finding the Imprint of the Environment on the Genome



DNA on Trial



Parents and Children: Neurogenetic Determinism and Neurogenetic Individuality



Summing Up Genetic Predictors of Behavior


Suggested Reading


List of Figures


Glossary


Index