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Epigenetics & behavior

How do genes influence our behavior and predispositions?

Scientific American's Christine Gorman explains why the answer to this question is more complex than it first appears. Video from Scientific American, 10 August 2012 [online]

Methylating your muscle DNA

(The Scicurious Brain: The Good, Bad, and Weird in Physiology and Neuroscience)
Published by Scientific American: May 14, 2012 [online]

Neuroscience: In their nurture

Can epigenetics underlie the enduring effects of a mother's love? Lizzie Buchen investigates the criticisms of a landmark study and the controversial field to which it gave birth.
Published online 8 September 2010 | Nature 467, 146-148 (2010) | doi:10.1038/467146a [online]

The Brain: The switches that can turn mental illness on and off

The difference between one personality and another is not determined by genes alone. Love’s got something to do with it too.
Carl Zimmer,
Discover Magazine, published online June 16, 2010 [online]

A Role for epigenetics in cognition

Greg Miller,
Science 2 July 2010: Vol. 329 no. 5987 p. 27, DOI: 10.1126/science.329.5987.27 [online]