Jaime Derringer, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research explores how complex relationships between genes and experiences give rise ...

Jaime Derringer, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research explores how genes and environments work together to influence human ...

Sensation seeking -- the urge to do exciting things -- has been linked to dopamine, a chemical that carries messages in your brain. For a new study, scientists analyzed genes in the dopamine system ...

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