The environment of the womb plays a powerful role in influencing our later susceptibility to certain chronic diseases and how long we live. Exposure to maternal depression as a fetus has an impact on the well being of the infant, child, tinage and young adult. Changes brought about by under nutrition during gestation were found in the children of pregnant women exposed to the dutch famine at the end of world war too. The good news is that positive experiences in early life can build resilience and protect him or her from the effects of troma. I would not be standing here to day based on my polygenic score. For debating it is the care that ive received from my parents, the way that my father
We delve back into the archive to 2018, when we held a debate getting to the heart of nature vs nurture. How much do our parents influence the people that we eventually turn out to be? We were joined by Professor of Behavioural Genetics Robert Plomin, the Developmental Clinical Psychologist Susan Pawlby, therapist, parenting counsellor and broadcaster Ann Pleshette Murphy, and Stuart Ritchie, lecturer in social genetics and developmental psychiatry and author of Science Fictions. Hosting the debate was Doctor and broadcaster, Dr Xand van Tulleken.
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