Psychology & Psychiatry
Why marijuana affects different people differently
For some people, marijuana causes a rewarding high. For others, it produces serious psychiatric side effects.
Jul 8, 2019
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News tagged with genetic variation
Parkinson's & Movement disorders
How coffee protects against Parkinson's
A specific genetic variation discovered by researchers at Linköping University in Sweden protects against Parkinson's Disease – especially for those who drink a lot of coffee.
Jul 11, 2014
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Genetics
23andME reports people with type O blood less likely to get COVID-19
Representatives with 23andMe, a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service, have reported that people who have type O blood are slightly less likely to get COVID-19. The work has not yet been peer-reviewed, and their study ...
Medical research
Study identifies why some people can smell asparagus in urine
In The BMJ's Christmas edition this week, a study identifies the genetic origin of the ability to smell the strong, characteristic odor in human urine produced after eating asparagus.
Dec 13, 2016
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Genetics
Largest study of its kind reveals that many psychiatric disorders arise from common genes
Many distinct psychiatric diseases share a common genetic structure, according to new research by scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, an international team of investigators. ...
Dec 12, 2019
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Genetics
How genetic variation gives rise to differences in mathematical ability
DNA variation in a gene called ROBO1 is associated with early anatomical differences in a brain region that plays a key role in quantity representation, potentially explaining how genetic variability might shape mathematical ...
Oct 22, 2020
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Neuroscience
Genomic map implicates broad immune cell involvement in multiple sclerosis
The International Multiple Sclerosis Genetic Consortium (IMSGC) reports the results of its latest study, "Multiple sclerosis genomic map implicates peripheral immune cells and microglia in susceptibility", in the journal ...
Sep 26, 2019
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Genetics
Genes, yes, but obesity pandemic mostly down to diet: study
A three-fold jump since 1975 in the percentage of adults worldwide who are obese has been driven mainly by a shift in diet and lack of exercise, but genes do play a role as well, according a large-scale study published Thursday.
Jul 4, 2019
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Genetics
Owning a dog is influenced by genetic make-up
A team of Swedish and British scientists have studied the heritability of dog ownership using information from 35,035 twin pairs from the Swedish Twin Registry. The new study suggests that genetic variation explains more ...
May 17, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Further evidence found for causal links between cannabis and schizophrenia
People who have a greater risk of developing schizophrenia are more likely to try cannabis, according to new research, which also found a causal link between trying the drug and an increased risk of the condition.
Dec 19, 2016
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