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Twice Exceptional Students: Gifts and Talents, the Performing Arts, and Juvenile Delinquency
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Grigorenko, Elena L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
There is an increasing attention to the phenomenon referred to as "twice exceptional" ("2e") children, namely, children who demonstrate both exceptional abilities and disabilities. In this essay, this concept is applied to delinquency and/or emotional-behavior disorder and gifts (talents) in the performance arts, exploring the…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Gifted Disabled, Emotional Disturbances
Cohesion of Cortical Language Networks during Word Processing Is Predicted by a Common Polymorphism in the "SETBP1" Gene
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Rakhlin, Natalia; Landi, Nicole; Lee, Maria; Magnuson, James S.; Naumova, Oxana Yu.; Ovchinnikova, Irina V.; Grigorenko, Elena L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
The etiological mechanisms of the genetic underpinnings of developmental language disorder (DLD) are unknown, in part due to the behavioral heterogeneity of the disorder's manifestations. In this study, we explored an association between the SETBP1 gene (18q21.1), revealed in a genome-wide association study of DLD in a geographically isolated…
Descriptors: Genetics, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Correlation
Creativity and the Genome: The State of Affairs
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Grigorenko, Elena L. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2017
This essay is focused on the research into the genetic etiology of creativity and related processes. In an attempt to identify the most salient points of this research, the article provides a brief overview of quantitative-genetic (family and twin) and molecular-genetic (candidate-gene and whole-genome) studies of creativity. To conclude, the…
Descriptors: Creativity, Genetics, Etiology, Twins
Genomic Sciences for Developmentalists: A Merge of Science and Practice
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Grigorenko, Elena L. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
The etiological forces of development have been a central question for the developmental sciences (however defined) since their crystallization as a distinct branch of scientific inquiry. Although the history of these sciences contains examples of extreme positions capitalizing on either the predominance of the genome (i.e., the accumulation of…
Descriptors: Genetics, Scientific Research, Etiology, Child Development
Gene Variants Associated with Antisocial Behaviour: A Latent Variable Approach
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Bentley, Mary Jane; Lin, Haiqun; Fernandez, Thomas V.; Lee, Maria; Yrigollen, Carolyn M.; Pakstis, Andrew J.; Katsovich, Liliya; Olds, David L.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Leckman, James F. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Objective: The aim of this study was to determine if a latent variable approach might be useful in identifying shared variance across genetic risk alleles that is associated with antisocial behaviour at age 15 years. Methods: Using a conventional latent variable approach, we derived an antisocial phenotype in 328 adolescents utilizing data from a…
Descriptors: Risk, Genetics, Identification, Antisocial Behavior
Understanding the Etiology of Complex Traits: Symbiotic Relationships between Psychology and Genetics
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Grigorenko, Elena L. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2007
The present article offers comments on the infusion of methodologies, approaches, reasoning strategies, and findings from the fields of genetics and genomics into studies of complex human behaviors (hereafter, complex phenotypes). Specifically, I discuss issues of generality and specificity, causality, and replicability as they pertain to…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Psychology, Genetics, Etiology