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Originally Posted by Mutt
This is what I thought, she very may well be fucked up because of a fucked up childhood.
And since you are a neuroscience nerd there is a ton of research already published about the epigenetic changes in the brain that leads to behaviour and mood disorders which comes from years of emotional trauma, especially in childhood.
So there's now a loop created, emotional trauma ----> epigenetic brain damage/changes ----> "mental illness/disorder" ----> more emotional trauma from mental illness ----> more brain damage/changes ---> more diagnoses of disorders
This is becoming a popular bio-social model of several mental illnesses now.
And the most mind boggling part of epigenetics is that emotional trauma can be passed down to future generations.
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Yeah Mutt, its a fascinating field. One of those "the more we know, the more we realize we don't know" type dilemmas. But the pace of insight and discovery is mind numbing now and that is what truly fascinates me.
I had this horrible thought the other day...
... think about the Middle East. Think as an example of ISIS and similar groups running through village after village raping away, selling girls as slaves to other similar people and so on. What genes and behavioral traits are being spread? More than anything, they are actively, selectively breeding violent psychopaths. Psychopathic personality traits (and the associated brain dysfunction) have proven unfortunately, to be highly heritable.