The study provides a comprehensive behavioral dataset of Drosophila melanogaster, categorized by genetic background, sex, and social context (isolated or in groups). Beyond enabling detailed analyses ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies - one focused on ...

In a new perspective article, researchers underscore the importance of integrating environmental effects into genetic research. The authors discuss how failure to do so can perpetuate deterministic ...

New genomic research provides strong rationale against genetic determinism for behavior. It has long been known that there is a complex interplay between genetic factors and environmental influences ...

Jessica D. Ayers does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Behavioral genetics was founded as an interdisciplinary field in the 1970s to separate itself from any connection with genetic determinism or with eugenics. (Eugenics aspired to improve humanity ...

Irving Gottesman set out to challenge the prevailing thinking in the 1960s that faulty parenting was mostly to blame for mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. In studies of twins that brought him ...

We no longer believe in inherited capacities, talent, temperament, mental constitution, and characteristics. Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up ...

This review article describes the complex interactions between genetic factors and the gut microbiome in the context of opioid use behaviors. We tested the inbred High and Low Activity strains of mice ...