The Behavioral Inhibition and Activation Systems (BIS/BAS) are central to emotional regulation, yet their genetic and neural mechanisms remain unclear. In this study, we examined how polygenic risk ...

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 ...

A new study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai shows that social determinants of health—including environmental ...

A new statistical framework could speed up the search for rare mutations that cause common diseases, helping researchers zero ...

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 ...

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 ...

Although sedentary behaviour may be an evolutionarily selected trait, it is still important to try to be physically active, says a new study conducted at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.