NEUR 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Romanian Orphans, Vasopressin, Epigenetics
11 Jun 2020
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They may affect social behaviors, or they may be caused/exacerbated by adverse social environments (trauma, bullying, etc. ,: this complicates matters for researchers. While rats and mice have very interesting social lives, it is not clear whether or not their behaviors tell us much about human socialization. Instead, researchers must resort to using primate models like chimpanzees, bonobos and baboons: difficult to get ethical approval to work with primates. It is also difficult to recreate social situations in a laboratory environment: developmental social neuroscience. Social neuroscience and mental illness: very few mental illnesses are even 50% genetic - when genetic risk factors exist, they usually account for less than 50% of the risk for an illness. These children were sent to state-run orphanages in massive numbers: conditions in state-run orphanages were deplorable (sub-dickensian, even), and children were subject to severe neglect.
