PSYC23H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Epigenetics, Amygdala, Gene Therapy
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Imitation allows us to survive and thirve in situations evolutionary push. Autistic lack of social imitation due to neuronal disruptions. Fathers 5 times more likely to pass genes for autism due to spontaneous generations. Risk is higher in dads over 40 for spreading autism. Environment affects risk for autism by affecting the genome and increasing the risk for these spontaneous mutations. Not enough research on mirror neurons to determine more on mirror neurons. There is an idea of construction to memory, constantly changing memories and we have a lot of bias by which we make memorys (filter out our experiences if we already know something) Every time we access a memory, we change it slightly. Access to memory is different each time we call it up, so it changes the memory. When amygdala fired up a lot, it can form associations that can form memories fearful memries best model we have of how models are formed.
