Seiji Nishino, emeritus professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, provides comment.
Conclusions, Behavioral endophenotype: The comment on associations between CGG length, FMR1 mRNA, and FMRP expression warrants more discussion.
"This is an important finding, and an exciting marriage between ecology and psychology," comments behavioral biologist Simon Reader of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.
The combined database will allow scientists to puzzle out the genetic components of relatively rare conditions--such as Parkinson's disease or specific types of cancer--that affect only 1%to5%5% of the population, comments behavioral geneticist Matthew McGue of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who is not directly involved in the consortium.
Participants indicated that MBSR facilitated making behavioral changes, with comments about becoming more conscious and intentional about their sleep routine, and "making it a priority to do the things that we all know we are supposed to do, but we don't necessarily do.
Digital can help level playing fields in this struggle and smart strategies like this one can really affect behavioral change if the comments on the livestream are anything to by.
Dyson professor Vicki Bogan comments on investors' behavioral patterns when estimating both external risks and their own skillsets.
The artificial intelligence of computer-controlled factions, which featured adaptability and behavioral subtlety, was given mixed comments; some reviewers thought it was efficient and logical, while others found it confusing or erratic.
We comment on a recent behavioral study in which we describe a human-like beckoning gesture in 2 groups of bonobos, used in combination with sexual solicitation postures.
We also thank Michael Long and Dmitriy Aronov for advice on electrolytic lesions, Charles Hoeffer and the NYU rodent behavior core facility for help with behavioral assays, and Jens Hjerling-Leffler for valuable comments on the manuscript.
