Nature vs. Nurture, Neurogenetics, Personality, Autism, Schizophrenia, Synesthesia & Free Will | Kevin Mitchell | 78
Mind & Matter
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Genes of Personality
When one twin has personality a, maybe they're more extraverted, the other twins more introverted. What is the kind of explanation that people can start to think about for what would account for that ation? So if geans make proteins, and the proteins do stuff that ultimately builds up to our personalities. When we far cologically target those proteins, then you get changes in behavior. That's why, i mean, both a lot of medical, psychoactive drugs as well as, you know, drugs that people use recreationally,. The genes that harbor variants that are statistically associated with traits like personality ones don't tend to be so specific ido pathways. Rather there's underlying variability
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