Do you want the stress free life of some one who's been relegated to the roll of chauffeur, security guard and chef? Or am i prepared to sign up to the overwhelming responsibility that what i do day to day might actually have some serious and profound consequences for my son? The most important bit is your questions. I've loads of questions, but we're going to throw it open to the floor. Can we get number two here? What mechanism do you think post birth paren tiam predominantly works? Is it through moulding neural plasticity, or is it by influencing gean expression? And for the protem i'd like to know, have you tried to account for
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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