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Friday, March 24, 2006
How genes make up your mind
You will find a nice introduction to this topic by Thomas Ramsoy on the Science and Consciousness Review website. He gives the necessary background (showing the brain anatomy and chemistry) for understanding a paper by Harari et al. that correlates a variation in human serotonin transporter genes with fear and anxiety traits and amygdala activation.
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fear/anxiety/stress,
genes
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Thanks for posting this, I needed to read somethat that was accessible.
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