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	Shyness Gene Teased Out

Aribeth

4-19-2008 4:30 AM

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If further research links RGS2 variations to anxiety disorders, the gene may make a good treatment target, Smoller's team writes in the Archives of General Psychiatry.<<

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4-21-2008 2:53 AM

Brimstone

Interesting clip. I tend to be shy and quite until I get to know the people around me, then I am not so quite, as long as I know there is a willing audience I am going to talk a lot.

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    <DIV class="subhead_fmt">Variations in RGS2 Gene Linked to Shyness in Kids, Introversion in Adults</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080303/shyness-gene-teased-out">March 3, 2008 -- Scientists have spotted a gene linked to shyness in children and introversion in adults.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080303/shyness-gene-teased-out">Variations in that gene may also make <A href="http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/tc/social-anxiety-disorder-topic-overview" linkindex="62" set="yes">social anxiety disorder</A> and other <A href="http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/default.htm" linkindex="63">anxiety</A> disorders more likely, but more work is needed to confirm that possibility.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080303/shyness-gene-teased-out">The gene is called RGS2. Certain variations in that gene stood out in a new study of kids' shyness and adult introversion.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080303/shyness-gene-teased-out">The researchers conducted three experiments.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080303/shyness-gene-teased-out">The study doesn't mean that the RGS2 gene makes people shy or introverted. And the study wasn't about <A path="/webmdhttp://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/anxiety-panic-guide-diagnosis-tests" object_type="" keywordsetid="4975" keywordid="19138" href="http://www.webmd.com/anxiety-panic/guide/anxiety-panic-guide-diagnosis-tests" externalid="2188A66CE6524799" directive="friendlyurl" crosslinkid="31554" chronic_id="" linkindex="64" set="yes">diagnosing anxiety disorders</A>. Shyness and introversion aren't anxiety disorders.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20080303/shyness-gene-teased-out">But shyness and introversion are risk factors for anxiety disorders, especially social anxiety disorder, note the researchers, who included Jordan Smoller, MD, ScD, of Massachusetts General Hospital's psychiatry department.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/277FA377-7EBA-4D3F-B4FB-60B78B4F174F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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