Genetic Factors in Personality Traits

posted on July 7, 2014

Rachael Grazioplene, a Ph.D. candidate in the research group of MSI PI Associate Professor Colin DeYoung (Psychology) is featured in the Winter 2014 issue of Reach, a publication of the College of Liberal Arts. The DeYoung group is studying possible biological reasons for personality traits. The use magnetic resonance images to study the brain and need MSI resources for the computationally intensive methods needed to analyze the images.

In the Reach article, Ms. Grazioplene discusses a possible common genetic factor that can cause creativity in some people and mental illness in others. You can read the entire article on the Reach website

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