Comments on: Dopamine Transporter Gene and Primate Social Behavior

By: The Social Brain Hypothesis: Are our brains hardwired to deal with social hierarchies? « Anthropology.net

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:44:31 +0000

[...] the monetary reward. The stratium is a critical part of the brain where dopamine is regulated, and a previous study investigated the genetics of dopamine and the linkage it had to agressive social be…. Overall, this observation implies that social status is highly valued in our subconscious minds, [...]

By: Amiya Sarkar

Amiya Sarkar — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:43:11 +0000

An impressive article on the reward chemical of the brain. You shed important and interesting insight on ‘dominance’ but somehow underplayed Parkinsonism. Looking forward to reading your articles often.

By: Identifying Cis-Acting Elements that regulate Human Gene Expression « Anthropology.net

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:52:44 +0000

[...] Identifying Cis-Acting Elements that regulate Human Gene Expression Jump to Comments Today, I used Athena, a web app that lets one check out and compare promoter sequences in Arabidopsis, for my Functional Genomics class. You can check out the Bioinformatics publication that announces this cool tool, if you want. But I must admit it is not really applicable to the rest of this post… the only reason I bring it up is because it influenced what I’ve been thinking about the whole day: promoters and how they effect gene expression and ultimately phenotype, especially since last week I wrote up an overview on how mutations in the promoter sequence of the dopamine gene has serious behavioral ramification. [...]