This week on the blog Kara writes about conduct problems and the importance of identifying and understanding differing aetiologies and trajectories across through the lifespan.
If we start this blog post with the statement that “people differ from each other”, you will probably snort with derision thinking of snowflakes and popular cheesy quotes about being unique like everyone else, but it is true. People do differ and in so many ways. This week Elena and…
Heritability is the proportion of variation in a given population that is due to genetic differences. If a trait is highly heritable, it is more likely to be shared between individuals of close genetic relatedness, regardless of whether they share the same environment. This concept can be difficult to wrap…
Today we have some reflections from Dr Holan Liang, part-time Consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at UCL, on her journey through academia, motherhood, writing and part-time clinical work in medicine. You can follow her on Twitter on @shrinkgrowskids.
For the letter G, Thalia [Eley, EDIT Lab director] walks us through gene-environment correlation, a topic we think will become increasingly widely explored as methods for understanding genetic influence improve.
Fear is an emotional response vital for our survival. However, overwhelming fear can lead to excessive avoidance of situations that are not actually dangerous, causing distress and impairing daily functioning. Here, we give an overview of fear, explaining when it becomes pathological and how it can be studied experimentally.
When we perceive threat, our bodies initiate a fight-or-flight response (Cannon, 1932). This physiological reaction – involving symptoms such as quickened heart rate – prepares us for action. Although unpleasant, it is likely that this adaptive response enabled our ancestors to run from or fight predators, and therefore to survive…
Eating disorders are complex, debilitating disorders which are commonly misunderstood. They are a result of complex interactions between innate biological factors (metabolism, brain reward processing in response to food), current state (adolescence, pregnancy, age) and the social environment (availability of different foods). The interactions of these factors lead to fluctuating…
Following on from April’s stress awareness month, Megan [Edit Lab placement student] discusses stress in the context of gender dysphoria, and provides information on how to help those that may be suffering.
This week on the blog, Daniel [EDIT Lab PhD student] summarises the findings of a recently published study by Taraban et al. investigating the influence of parental depression on the development of behaviour problems in children through its effect on parenting. Parenting can be stressful, so it comes as…
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