Our Genes, Our Choices: How Genotype and Gene Interactions Affect Behavior

Our Genes, Our Choices: How Genotype and Gene Interactions Affect Behavior, Second Edition explains how the complexity of human behavior, including concepts of free will, derives from a relatively small number of genes which direct neurodevelopmental sequences. Are people free to make choices or do genes determine behavior? Paradoxically, the answer to both questions is yes, because of neurogenetic individuality, a new theory with profound implications. Here, author David Goldman uses judicial, political, medical, and ethical examples to illustrate that this lifelong process is guided by individual genotype, molecular and physiologic principles, as well as by randomness and environmental exposures. Written in an authoritative yet accessible style, the book includes practical descriptions of the function of DNA, discusses the scientific and historical bases of genethics, and introduces the topics of epigenetics and the predictive power of behavioral genetics. Updates on the previous edition which was the First Prize winner of the 2013 BMA Medical Book Award for Basic and Clinical SciencesPoses and resolves challenges to moral responsibility raised by modern genetics and neuroscienceAnalyzes the neurogenetic origins of human behavior and free willFeatures expanded sections on the neurogenetic basis of free will, polygenic risk scores, and epigenetic influence over behavior, as well as improved figures and updated terminology INDICE: 1. Introduction: Thou Mayest Choose 2. The Jinn in the Genome 3. 2B or Not 2B? 4. Stephen Mobley and His X-Chromosome 5. Dial Multifactorial for Murder: The Intersection of Genes and Culture 6. Distorted Capacity: The Measure of the Impaired Will  7. Distorted Capacity: Neuropsychiatric Diseases and the Impaired Will 8. Inheritance of Behavior and Genes For? Behavior 9.  The Scientific and Historic Bases of Genethics 10. The World is Double Helical: DNA, RNA and Proteins, in a Few Easy Piece 11.The Stochastic Brain: From DNA Blueprint to Behavior 12. Reintroducing Genes and Behavior 13. Warriors and Worriers 14. How Many Genes Does it Take to Make a Behavior? 15. The Genesis and Genetics of Sexual Behavior 16. Gene by Environment Interaction 17. The Epigenetic Revolution 18.Time out for free will 19. The top-down neurogenesis of free will  20. Summing Up Genetic Predictors of Behavior

• ISBN: 978-0-443-22161-3
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 326
• Fecha Publicación: 08/09/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés