In his 2003 bestseller The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, Steven Pinker asserts that "The three laws of behavioral genetics may be the most important discoveries in the history of ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm interested in the interplay between genetics and the environment and how this interaction shapes the aging process across the entire lifespan. From early life experiences to everyday exposures, I ...

New research from the University of Bath's School of Management shows that a genetic predisposition for success can be derailed by childhood adversity, shifting focus from long-term goals to immediate ...

I am interested in what promotes healthy functioning in later life. I seek to understand psychological and neurological factors impacting health using genomic methods. And to leverage these factors, ...