Human Behavior w/ Robert Sapolsky
Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria
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How Does Childhood Adversity Affect the Kind of Adult You Are?
There's this gene jargon that's called MAO alpha, monoxidase alpha. If you have one of those variants, you are significantly more prone towards sort of adult anti-social violence if and only if you were abused as a child. We're actually learning a huge amount about the molecular biology of how those early experiences change gene regulation in this one little corner of your brain forever after.
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