Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation
- R. McDermott, D. Tingley, Jonathan Cowden, G. Frazzetto, Dominic D. P. Johnson
- PsychologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- 17 February 2009
It is demonstrated that aggression occurs with greater intensity and frequency as provocation is experimentally manipulated upwards, especially among low activity MAOA (MAOA-L) subjects, and suggests important implications for the role of individual variance in genetic factors contributing to everyday behaviors and decisions.
Early Trauma and Increased Risk for Physical Aggression during Adulthood: The Moderating Role of MAOA Genotype
- G. Frazzetto, G. Di Lorenzo, A. Troisi
- PsychologyPLoS ONE
- 30 May 2007
The hypothesis that MAOA genotype moderates the association between early traumatic life events experienced during the first 15 years of life and the display of physical aggression during adulthood is supported and the use of dimensional measures focusing on behavioral aspects of aggression may increase the likelihood of detecting significant gene-by-environment interactions in studies of MAOA-related aggression.
Understanding consciousness
- G. Frazzetto
- ArtEMBO Reports
- 1 April 2005
The story of Adam, a playwright in his sixties who is given the chance to have his mind transferred into the corpse of an unknown man, highlights the age‐old question of what is the repository for subjective consciousness and phenomenal experience.
Variation in the μ-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) moderates the influence of early maternal care on fearful attachment.
- A. Troisi, G. Frazzetto, C. Gross
- PsychologySocial Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
- 1 June 2012
The data fit well with the differential susceptibility model which stipulates that plasticity genes would make some individuals more responsive than others to the negative consequences of adversity and to the benefits of environmental support and enrichment.
Identifying Molecular Substrates in a Mouse Model of the Serotonin Transporter × Environment Risk Factor for Anxiety and Depression
- V. Carola, G. Frazzetto, C. Gross
- Biology, PsychologyBiological Psychiatry
- 1 May 2008
‘I Bambini e le Droghe’: The Right to Ritalin vs the Right to Childhood in Italy
- G. Frazzetto, Sinead Keenan, I. Singh
- Psychology, Medicine
- 3 December 2007
It is suggested that in Italy, the current dynamics in the regulation of methylphenidate inscribe ADHD diagnosis and stimulant drug treatment as moral choices and illustrates that close analysis of specific cultural contexts can be useful in understanding how attitudes towards mental disorders and the use of psychotropic drugs can be shaped by the social practices and medical habits of a country.
Teaching How to Bridge Neuroscience, Society, and Culture
- G. Frazzetto
- EducationPLoS Biology
- 1 October 2011
This paper presents a novel educational resource that teaches how to bridge neuroscience, society and culture.
Social hedonic capacity is associated with the A118G polymorphism of the mu-opioid receptor gene (OPRM1) in adult healthy volunteers and psychiatric patients
- A. Troisi, G. Frazzetto, C. Gross
- Psychology, BiologySocial Neuroscience
- 17 February 2011
The results reported here are in agreement with the brain opioid hypothesis of social attachment and the established role of opioid transmission in mediating affiliative behavior.
Science on the stage
- G. Frazzetto
- ArtEMBO Reports
- 1 September 2002
The separation between science and art is not only objectively erroneous, but also dangerous, if taken seriously… it prevents the real world from being an object of fantasy; this way we favour a lack…
Xenopus marginal coil (Xmc), a novel FGF inducible cytosolic coiled-coil protein regulating gastrulation movements
- G. Frazzetto, P. Klingbeil, T. Bouwmeester
- BiologyMechanisms of Development
- 1 April 2002
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