Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Charting new body-mind links

The link between mind and the body tends to be more the subject of New Age books or yoga workshops than respectable research. Not that this link hasn’t been subjected to scientific scrutiny. One person who is moving us closer to such an understanding is a McGill scientist named Moshe Szyf. Szyf, 52, is a pioneer in the emerging field of epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of the epigenome—the chemical switching system that turns genes on and off, and it is radically changing how we understand the relationship between our genetics and our environment. “

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Posted by Tom Beckman on 07/31 at 03:37 PM
Aging • Brain • Genetics • Stress • (0) Comments • Permalink
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