Behavioral genetics was founded as an interdisciplinary field in the 1970s to separate itself from any connection with genetic determinism or with eugenics. (Eugenics aspired to improve humanity ...

A new study published in Behavior Genetics offers a fresh and nuanced perspective on the ongoing debate over social media's ...

Eric Turkheimer is the Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia. He is a past president of the Behavior Genetics Association, which awarded him the Dobzhansky Prize ...

I'm interested in the interplay between genetics and the environment and how this interaction shapes the aging process across the entire lifespan. From early life experiences to everyday exposures, I ...

This post is the third in the series “Connecting Biology to Behavior: Inside the ADHD Brain.” Read the first post to learn about the role of dopamine in ADHD behaviors and the second post to learn ...

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 ...

I am interested in what promotes healthy functioning in later life. I seek to understand psychological and neurological factors impacting health using genomic methods. And to leverage these factors, ...