Nurture via Nature: Genetics, Environment, and Cognition
Nurture via Nature: Genetics, Environment, and Cognition
This chapter focuses on the effects of genetic modulation on cognitive aging. The use of molecular genetics for understanding cognition genetics is discussed along with the advantages of molecular methods. Identification of novel disease genes via genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of neuropsychiatric diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and autism, is presented. The use of candidate-gene studies to figure out the relationship between genes and cognition is explored along with the method’s findings and limitations. The importance of the apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene in researching aging and the development of Alzheimer’s disease is presented, as are studies that focus on the impact of interaction of genes and the physical environment on cognition. The case of schizophrenia is discussed where mental illness is caused by genetic disposition and stressful life events.
Keywords: genetic modulation, molecular genetics, cognition genetics, GWAS, neuropsychiatric diseases, apolipoprotein E gene, Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia
MIT Press Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
