Expectations May Affect Placebo Response in Patients With Parkinson’s Disease

Expectations May Affect Placebo Response In Patients With Parkinson’s Disease
Individuals with Parkinson’s disease were more likely to have a neurochemical response to a placebo medication if they were told they had higher odds of receiving an active drug, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. “The promise of symptom improvement that is elicited by a placebo is a powerful modulator of brain …
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Psychopathic Traits Influenced By Combination Of Economic Status, Genetics
Researchers studying the genetic roots of antisocial behavior report that children with one variant of a serotonin transporter gene are more likely to exhibit psychopathic traits if they also grow up poor. The study, the first to identify a specific gene associated with psychopathic tendencies in youth, appears this month in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. People with psychopathic traits …
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Economic status, genetics together influence psychopathic traits
Researchers studying the genetic roots of antisocial behavior report that children with one variant of a serotonin transporter gene are more likely to exhibit psychopathic traits if they also grow up poor. Children were more likely to score high on tests for psychopathic traits if they had both low socioeconomic status and the variant gene.
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