Some infants raised in poverty exhibit physical traits that make them more vulnerable to poor caregiving, according to new research published in Psychological Science.
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Is your 3-year-old overly cranky, impulsive and restless? If the answer is yes, you could be raising a future gambler.
So says a new study published recently in the journal Psychological Science that found a correlation between so-called "under-controlled" temperament in preschoolers and compulsive gambling later in life.
[This is not as surprising as it might at first seem--all sorts of addictions may have their root in mechanisms such as faulty dopamine reception/regulation in the brain. Which may be linked to deficiencies in interpersonal caretaker attunement during the first months of life.] Delete the scoop?
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For help understanding why, you might find this discussion of epigenetics interesting: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetics.html ;