Geoff Hunt, founder of the meditation movement New Buddha Way, told VICE News that: "The very first of many precepts for Buddhist monks is the precept against violence, of which verbal abuse is a variant".
An earlier study showed association of the COMT variant rs165599 with verbal memory in Caucasians (20), but better performance was associated with the T allele.
Shared communication patterns are foundational in medical education, as evidenced by formal training in the History and Physical (H&P) format as well as the Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan (SOAP) format and its variants in daily verbal and written progress reports.
"But are we all imagining John with the same height, the same hair color?" Nothing in the sentence signals any of that information, yet each of us supplies our own variant, which awaits further verbal data for confirmation.
We examined whether the positive influence of the high risk G72 variant is restricted to verbal working memory or whether this genotype also beneficially influences other cognitive domains.
In a recent study however, a positive effect of the high-risk variant of G72 on verbal working memory was reported.
The students whose DNA had one of the variants scored higher on verbal creativity, while those who possessed another showed higher scores on figural creativity (the flexible production of ideas) and numeric creativity.
These results suggest that common functional variants in PAH impact verbal memory performance in healthy adults.
ZNF385D variants now join this list of putative transcriptional variants that influence written and verbal language skills.
The expansion of DYX2's association from reading to include other language-related processes suggests that the causative variants may affect reading and verbal language in a pleiotropic manner, as opposed to one or the other exclusively.
