Serotonin and Violence
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, continues his comments about serotonin. Dr. Hamer
Subject: serotonin
Transcript: Serotonin makes the brain feel bad. For some people, this makes them depressed. They feel bad about themselves. For other people, they may feel
Serotonin
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the chemical serotonin and the role it
Subject: serotonin
Transcript: It turns out that harm avoidance is controlled by a different Brain chemical called serotonin. And serotonin is like the brain's punishment chemical
Breaking Addictions
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about efforts to determine, "...whether or not there is a genetic basis for why some people find it easy to stop smoking, and other people find it...
Subject: serotonin
Transcript: the brain. The other gene that we found involved is the serotonin Transporter gene which is involved in personality Traits like depression and
Violence and Genetics
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about a family in Holland that included multiple individuals who were violent criminals. This behavior prompted scientists to explore possible gen...
Subject: serotonin
Transcript: Scientists had long suspected that chemicals like serotonin Were important for violence because there was this Connection between brain levels of the