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NIH-led study identifies genetic variant that can lead to severe impulsivity – 2
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. A research team has found a genetic variant that may contribute to violently impulsive behavior. Dr. David Goldman at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism says impulsive behavior is a factor in many pathological behaviors—including suicide, aggression, and addiction.
Goldman: So in trying to understand these diseases, we’ve studied their components, such as impulsivity. And we DNA-sequenced people who were extremely impulsive.
Narrator: Those extremely impulsive people were violent criminal offenders in Finland. In the study, carriers of the gene variant who had committed impulsive crimes were male, and had become violent while drunk. For details, visit www.niaaa.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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