Genetics news | Genetics news

email this print this News Copyright ...

"A person may have genetic liability for anorexia nervosa, but they also may have - from a different parent, for example - genes that buffer them from expression of the disorder," she said.

The person's environment might also provoke anorexia or prevent it.

Michael Strober, a clinical psychologist at the University of California at Los Angeles and editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, said conventional wisdom is that genetic factors do play a role in susceptibility.

This latest study, published in the March issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, further confirms previous research, Strober said.

The study also found a link between anorexia and childhood "neuroticism," which Bulik describes as "a tendency to be depressed or anxious, and also to be emotionally reactive." "For some kids, insults come right off them like water off a duck's back," she said.

"These kids are more like emotional Velcro.

Things stuck to them, get under their skin, and it influences them." For Strober, the new study also lends support to the belief that personality traits, including neuroticism, are important in the development of anorexia.

He believes that nearly all anorexia sufferers exhibit neurotic behavior in childhood.

From wire reports email this print this News Shop Local...

If so, are we alone in having them?

These are just the ones that come right to mind.

I expect some of these to be answered fairly soon; others won’t be solved until long after I’m dead, if at all.

But that’s OK, because it means there will always be something worth striving for, worth finding out.

We won’t ever lack ideas to pursue, and there will always be room for the sense of wonder and accomplishment at learning something new and fitting it into the puzzle of existence for the first time.

Maybe it’s not enough to get you through the day, not enough to brighten your heart against the daily thud of violence, politics and economic sob stories that your TV and newspaper bring.

I don’t know; I’m not you.

But it works for me, at least today.

And as I lean back in my chair and contemplate the world beyond my ceiling, I feel like, just for a moment, I got a little bit closer to understanding the world and myself.

That feels like accomplishment to me.

That feels like good news.

Good news: we don’t know jack Post your feedback on this topic here No feedback has been posted yet.

Please post yours!

(Feedback requires a Javascript-compatible browser) Cat Boots Durex Condom Designer Purses Backup Tape Drive © 2006 Arbiter Online Advertise on the New Digital Group College Newspaper Network ...