An important idea in understanding our brain and its relationship to our behavior is that the aspects of our brains that we bring into the world with us, the genetic aspects, are completely intertwined with the environment, and the environment regulates the way our brains develop.
Our environment and our genetic predispositions interact with one another producing changes interactively.
Genes contribute to the attributes we bring into the world, but the environment ultimately sculpts how our brain develops.
There appear to be other environmental factors which can directly act on the genes to turn certain genes off or on, affecting their expression.
QUESTION: What are some of the ways that individual differences in behavior are related to brain functioning?
