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The causes of psychiatric disorders are poorly understood. Now, in work led by researchers at McGill University, there is evidence that a...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 23, 2021
- 3 min
Night Owl or Lark? Personality Traits Predict Sleep Patterns
The link between the different hierarchies of personality, sleep patterns and even genetics has been discovered by researchers from the...
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Phil Harris
- Apr 27, 2020
- 17 min
Personality Part I: The Research Base
I recently watched the Netflix documentary “Three Identical Strangers.” Without too much of a spoiler alert, triplets who were separated...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 2, 2019
- 2 min
New Insights into Psychopathic Behavior
The expression of many genes that have previously been associated with autism is abnormal also in violent psychopathy, a new study shows....
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Phil Harris
- Jul 30, 2019
- 3 min
Trauma: Are We Genetically Sensitive?
Researchers from the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Yale University School of Medicine, the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and the...
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Phil Harris
- Apr 8, 2019
- 2 min
Poverty Written into Your Genes?
A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at...
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Phil Harris
- Jan 30, 2019
- 2 min
Babies Detect Individual Words at 3 Days Old
Babies are not blank slates. They come with a lot of pre-programming that is awaiting activation. A great example of this is language. ...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 2, 2018
- 4 min
ADHD Gene Breakthrough
A major international collaboration headed by researchers from the Danish iPSYCH project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT,...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 19, 2018
- 3 min
University Attendance Predicted by Genes
Research from King's College London has shown for the first time that genetics plays a significant role in whether young adults choose to...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 15, 2018
- 4 min
Gene-Parent Interactions Predict Aggression
In lectures on child development I stress the role of gene-parent interactions in shaping a child's behavior. This is an interesting...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 15, 2018
- 3 min
Agreeable People in Business
In lectures I often reference the differences in inherited personality traits have on human development. Agreeableness is an interesting...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 27, 2018
- 4 min
Is Addiction a Virus?
New research from an international team led by Oxford University's Department of Zoology and the National-Kapodistrian University of...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 19, 2018
- 5 min
What the Fruit Fly Tells Us About Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll.
Nothing cheers me up as much as a quirky research study on the humble fruit fly. We share approximately 65 per cent of our DNA with...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 4, 2018
- 6 min
Autism: New Insights
Whilst autism is not really my area, I am often asked about elements of the disorder. So I thought I would share some of the latest...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 27, 2018
- 3 min
Epigenetics: Major Data Error Identified
In lectures and training I always emphasis that genetic expressions are not fixed but change over time. Epigenetics is the study of how...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 22, 2018
- 2 min
Important Break Through in Understanding Alcohol and Genetics?
I have always been skeptical of primary genetic addiction models. The idea that disorders such as alcoholism was driven by gene actions...
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Phil Harris
- Feb 18, 2018
- 1 min
Age Deviancy: Mechanism for Age Related Behavior Discovered
In lectures on the life course I often discuss two central issues about aging. Firstly is the concept of age deviancy. This is the...
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Phil Harris
- Jan 11, 2018
- 1 min
Women: Born Survivors
In lectures on human development it always causes a stir when I point out that men are not only genetically weaker than women but are...
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Phil Harris
- Jan 8, 2018
- 4 min
Pre-Lived Futures: The Evidence is In?
In training and adolescent development I often refer to the emotional brains inability to see the future. As a result, the more distant...
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Phil Harris
- Jan 2, 2018
- 2 min
Aggression in Childhood: Genes Influenced by Environment
In a new Canadian study, researchers from the Université de Montréal set out to investigate the genetic and environmental factors in...
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