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Highlights: Nature through nuture: "The larger suggestion is that it is the combination of the right environment and genetic cocktail that causes mental illnes
by RichardHeart 9y ago
Highlights:
Nature through nuture: "The larger suggestion is that it is the combination of the right environment and genetic cocktail that causes mental illness — not nature versus nurture, but, as author Matt Ridley has written, nature via nurture."
Crime: "The more common antisocial behavior, limited to peer relationships at a young age, she termed “adolescent-limited.” She also identified a less common “life-course persistent” antisocial behavior, which resulted in a persistence of violence into midlife. "
Weed: " unlike tobacco users, marijuana users tended to stay healthy into midlife."
Self control:
""boys and girls with less self-control had worse health, less wealth, and more crime as adults than those with more self-control at every level of the distribution of self-control.”Another related study suggested a 5-item questionnaire at doctors’ offices could identify children who needed motivational counseling to make healthy decisions, which would greatly increase their chances of better health later in life."
- i_feel_great 9y agoYou left out the other stuff about marijuana: lower IQ and higher risk of psychosis.
- TotempaaltJ 9y agoYou in turn left out the important note on that: > these effects only occurred among those who smoked marijuana daily; more infrequent users suffered essentially none of these effects.
- dhproton 9y agoCongratulations, you both just tried to skew what was actually said.
- jjtheblunt 9y ago"essentially" = ?
- creep 9y agoLower IQ and risk of psychosis if used daily. As an anecdote, I noticed this in three of my friends who smoked daily for years (2-4 years), out of four friends who did and I didn't notice this at all in friends who smoked occasionally (out of... many friends).
- dominotw 9y agoDoes it matter at what age you start smoking? What are the effects on ppl who start smoking daily in their mid thirties.
- RichardHeart 9y agoI missed this giant takeaway: mental illness: 1."Researchers were shocked to find that the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and substance abuse in the Dunedin birth cohort was more than twice the rate the mental health community predicted. The reason, Dunedin researchers discovered, was a chronic underreporting of these problems by subjects long after their struggles occurred, in the way most previous studies had been conducted.: 2. "method of cognitive testing and digital imaging of the brain through the retina. Using this “non-invasive window to the brain” to identify at-risk children for targeted treatment might decrease a child’s risk of debilitating mental illness later in life."