MedicalXpress links!
Researchers discover idling brain activity in severely brain-injured patients who "wake up" after using Ambien
Stuck on flu: How a sugar-rich mucus barrier traps the virus-and it gets free to infect
Imaging the magnetically stimulated brain
Social symptoms in autistic children may be caused by hyper-connected neurons
Psychiatry professor takes new approach to helping compulsive washers
Who learns from the carrot, and who from the stick?
^Hm. So people's ability to switch off of previously-but-no-longer rewarding events and their tendency to walk away from something when it turns negative may be genetic. Interestingly enough? They aren't based on the same genes.
That may explain why some people are 'quitters' who nonetheless suffer from addictive tendencies. *embarrassed cough* It also implies that some people persevere in the face of adversity but can nonetheless get out of a burning barn, that some people will doggedly hang on despite negative stimulus for good or for ill, and that some people just quit when something turns bad whether or not it used to be rewarding.
Here's the big question for me. I've seen some people switch from one pattern to another... usually from a 'good' one to a 'bad' one. And usually tied to a traumatic life event or a series thereof in quick succession.
Can trauma change the expression of these genes?
And another, if so...
What is the method to trigger the reversal?
Inquiring minds want to know...
This entry is mirrored at http://guardians-song.dreamwidth.org/171667.html. Comment wherever you like. Just remind me to get off the internet and do my homework.
Stuck on flu: How a sugar-rich mucus barrier traps the virus-and it gets free to infect
Imaging the magnetically stimulated brain
Social symptoms in autistic children may be caused by hyper-connected neurons
Psychiatry professor takes new approach to helping compulsive washers
Who learns from the carrot, and who from the stick?
^Hm. So people's ability to switch off of previously-but-no-longer rewarding events and their tendency to walk away from something when it turns negative may be genetic. Interestingly enough? They aren't based on the same genes.
That may explain why some people are 'quitters' who nonetheless suffer from addictive tendencies. *embarrassed cough* It also implies that some people persevere in the face of adversity but can nonetheless get out of a burning barn, that some people will doggedly hang on despite negative stimulus for good or for ill, and that some people just quit when something turns bad whether or not it used to be rewarding.
Here's the big question for me. I've seen some people switch from one pattern to another... usually from a 'good' one to a 'bad' one. And usually tied to a traumatic life event or a series thereof in quick succession.
Can trauma change the expression of these genes?
And another, if so...
What is the method to trigger the reversal?
Inquiring minds want to know...
This entry is mirrored at http://guardians-song.dreamwidth.org/171667.html. Comment wherever you like. Just remind me to get off the internet and do my homework.