{"id":123495,"date":"2021-06-07T07:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/gene-changes-linked-to-severe-repetitive-behaviors"},"modified":"2021-06-07T07:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T14:22:18","slug":"gene-changes-linked-to-severe-repetitive-behaviors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/gene-changes-linked-to-severe-repetitive-behaviors","title":{"rendered":"Gene Changes Linked to Severe Repetitive Behaviors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gene-changes-linked-to-severe-repetitive-behaviors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Study identifies genes that become activated in the brain prior to the initiation of severe repetitive behaviors associated with addiction, ASD, and schizophrenia.<\/p>\n<p>Source: MIT<\/p>\n<p>Extreme repetitive behaviors such as hand-flapping, body-rocking, skin-picking, and sniffing are common to a number of brain disorders including autism, schizophrenia, Huntington\u2019s disease, and drug addiction. These behaviors, termed stereotypies, are also apparent in animal models of drug addiction and autism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Study identifies genes that become activated in the brain prior to the initiation of severe repetitive behaviors associated with addiction, ASD, and schizophrenia. Source: MIT Extreme repetitive behaviors such as hand-flapping, body-rocking, skin-picking, and sniffing are common to a number of brain disorders including autism, schizophrenia, Huntington\u2019s disease, and drug addiction. These behaviors, termed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}