I recently watched the Netflix documentary “Three Identical Strangers.” Without too much of a spoiler alert, triplets who were separated at birth come acros...

The expression of many genes that have previously been associated with autism is abnormal also in violent psychopathy, a new study shows. The researchers use...

Researchers from the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, Yale University School of Medicine, the VA San Diego Healthcare System, and the University of Californ...

A new Northwestern University study challenges prevailing understandings of genes as immutable features of biology that are fixed at conception. Previous re...

Babies are not blank slates. They come with a lot of pre-programming that is awaiting activation. A great example of this is language. Newborn babies are ...

A major international collaboration headed by researchers from the Danish iPSYCH project, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Massachusetts General Hospi...

Research from King's College London has shown for the first time that genetics plays a significant role in whether young adults choose to go to university, w...

In lectures on child development I stress the role of gene-parent interactions in shaping a child's behavior. This is an interesting study with fostered ide...

In lectures I often reference the differences in inherited personality traits have on human development. Agreeableness is an interesting trait and influence...

New research from an international team led by Oxford University's Department of Zoology and the National-Kapodistrian University of Athens, published today ...

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 these little fellas and ...

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 research studies that ha...

In lectures and training I always emphasis that genetic expressions are not fixed but change over time. Epigenetics is the study of how biological cells rea...

I have always been skeptical of primary genetic addiction models. The idea that disorders such as alcoholism was driven by gene actions was simply not suppo...

In lectures on the life course I often discuss two central issues about aging. Firstly is the concept of age deviancy. This is the social pressure we apply...

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 also are more biologica...

In training and adolescent development I often refer to the emotional brains inability to see the future. As a result, the more distant the individuals perc...

In a new Canadian study, researchers from the Université de Montréal set out to investigate the genetic and environmental factors in childhood that may be re...

It has long been a puzzle whether fear of spiders and snakes was hard wired in us or learned. However, a research team the Max Planck Institute for Human Cog...

Many, many years ago I read a book called Cities of Dreams by Stan Gooch. In it he suggested that modern day humans were the product of inter-breeding with N...