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Genetic Glitch May Prevent Kids From Learning From Their Mistakes
jamie pointed out an interesting piece being featured in Newsweek that claims a "genetic glitch" may prevent some kids from learning from their mistakes to the same degree as others. "If there is one thing experts on child development agree on, it is that kids learn best when they are allowed to make mistakes and feel the consequences. So Mom and Dad hold back as their toddler tries again and again to cram a round peg into a square hole. [...] But not, it seems, all kids. In about 30 percent, the coils of their DNA carry a glitch, one that leaves their brains with few dopamine receptors, molecules that act as docking ports for one of the neurochemicals that carry our thoughts and emotions. A paucity of dopamine receptors is linked to an inability to avoid self-destructive behavior such as illicit drug use. But the effects spill beyond such extremes. Children with the genetic variant are unable to learn from mistakes. No matter how many tests they blow by partying the night before, the lesson just doesn't sink in."
Let's party like we don't know any better!
After 25 years of research the leading scientist discovered he also had the gene.
lol: You see no door there!
I know I fail to learn from my mistakes.
I forget to take out the trash.
I'm told about it.
I forget again.
What's my problem??
The Kai's Semi-Updated Website Thingy
Why Bart Simpson kept trying to reach the electrified candy, while Lisa's hamster did not. The whole "bzzt...ow...bzzt...ow" sequence is stuck in my head.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
Kinda like the Libertarians? (if they ever got a chance damnit)
from the bzzt-ow-bzzt-ow-bzzzzzzzzzt-ooooooow dept.
http://xkcd.com/242/
Kinda like voters?
You can cure those siccups if you drink a glass of water with your head upside down.
So /. editors don't learn from publishing dupes?
OK, maybe this isn't a dupe (diffrent researchers, maybe?), but I don't want to bring the groupthink's wrath down on me by RTFA.
I always hit submit before
you just described my typical behaviour... but I've never been diagnosed with ADD, I just have a short... ooh a penny!
-- Sex is the antonym of pringles. Once you pop it's time to stop.
Unless your business gets big fat government subsidies. Then you'd be Iowa.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
there would be nothing on YouTube but cats.
Also, survival traits in some cases may benefit the species more than the indivdual - some of us are needed to find out what new things can or can't be done. Some of us are needed to hold the beer.
Kinda like those guys who keep finding genetic links to damn near everything?
George Bush syndrome.