Do you know what your mother did when she was young?

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 09:08 in Psychology & Sociology

A study reveals that the severity of learning disorders may depend not only on the child's environment but also - remarkably - on the mother's environment when she was young. The study in memory-deficient mice, published in the 4 February issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, was led by Larry Feig, PhD, professor of biochemistry at Tufts University School of Medicine and member of the biochemistry and neuroscience programs at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University...

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