BiologyJanuary 7, 2019
Is Our Future Really Written in Our Genes?
A recent book argues your DNA can predict your future from birth with 100 percent reliability. That assertion is not 100 percent reliable
Stories by Kevin Mitchell
Kevin Mitchell is associate professor at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics, Trinity College Dublin and a member of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience. His interests are in understanding the genetic program specifying the wiring of the brain and its relevance to variation in human faculties, especially to psychiatric and neurological disease and to perceptual conditions like synaesthesia. He writes the Wiring the Brain blogand is on Twitter @WiringtheBrain. His new book is INNATE--How the Wiring of Our Brains Shapes Who We Are
Mind & BrainJanuary 18, 2011
The Neuroscience of Tone Deafness
The strange connection between people who can't sing a tune and people who are "face blind"