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Blame my parents for my bad driving!
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GoldenRod
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Blame my parents for my bad driving!
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/10/29/bad.driver.gene/index.html
(CNN) -- The next time you see a motorist obliviously straddling two lanes, don't fault bad driving, but genetics.
In a study published recently in the journal Cerebral Cortex, researcher Steven Cramer found that people with a certain gene variant performed more than 30 percent worse on a driving test than people without it.
The study by Cramer, a neurology professor at the University of California Irvine, might also help explain why there are so many bad drivers on U.S. highways: About 30 percent of Americans have the variant.
Ordinarily, when a person performs a task, a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is secreted to the area of the brain that is associated with that activity.
The protein helps facilitate communication among brain cells and helps retain memory.
However in people who have the gene variation that Cramer studied, BDNF secretion is limited.
See, it's not my fault! 
(Actually, I'm a pretty good driver, so I guess I can credit my mom for some of my good driving, but that didn't make for a good Post Subject... )
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Posted 10/29/09 8:14 AM  |
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Re: Blame my parents for my bad driving!
Great. More material for people to blame their individual faults on something else!!
I often daydream about having a car that can shoot nails into tires of other cars on the road. Who do I contact about that? James Bond maybe?
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| Posted 10/29/09 8:34 AM |
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luvsbob4603
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| Posted 10/29/09 9:09 AM |
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