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  • noun The study of the genetic factors that contribute to the development of neurological disorders.

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  • noun medicine, genetics The study of the role of genetics in the development of neurological disorders

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Examples

  • Dr. Rubinsztein, a professor of molecular neurogenetics, says that one way to slow down or delay the onset of Huntington's disease may be to enhance the removal of the mutant huntington protein that is toxic to the cells.

    Key to Alzheimer's: Waste in Cells Amy Dockser Marcus 2010

  • Dr. Zimmerman referred CHILD for a neurogenetics consultation to evaluate her abnormal metabolic test results.

    David Kirby: The Vaccine-Autism Court Document Every American Should Read 2008

  • CHILD met with Dr. Richard Kelley, a specialist in neurogenetics, on May 22, 2001, at the Krieger Institute.

    David Kirby: The Vaccine-Autism Court Document Every American Should Read 2008

  • ~ The neurogenetics of traumatic memories -- Evolutionarily, enhanced memory of a highly emotional event - say, a situation when one's life is in danger - is an advantage, because that information will be potentially life-saving if that situation is encountered again.

    Speedlinking 8/7/07 William Harryman 2007

  • SAVIDGE: Dr. David Goldman head the neurogenetics lab at the National Institutes of Health. (on camera): If you have the twins, one is an alcoholic one is not, and yet, by their genes, they are the same -- that thereby it wasn't a trait in their genes, it was the environment solely that triggered the episode of being an alcoholic?

    CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2001 2001

  • From both neurogenetics and pharmacology, there is now powerful evidence that we can go further and say that one of the root causes of compulsive disease may be a defect in the gene or genes which regulate the function of the dopamine D2 receptor, a critical reward site.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • From both neurogenetics and pharmacology, there is now powerful evidence that we can go further and say that one of the root causes of compulsive disease may be a defect in the gene or genes which regulate the function of the dopamine D2 receptor, a critical reward site.

    Alcohol and The Addictive Brain Kenneth Blum 1991

  • Vosshall, a professor and head of the laboratory of neurogenetics and behavior at Rockefeller University, introduced a reporter to an array of provocative perfumes to underscore that smell can "put us in the mood like no other sense."

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM 2011

  • The researchers described their discovery as "the holy grail of behavioural neurogenetics".

    Discover Blogs 2010

  • Hutchinson Center and an expert in neurogenetics and neuromuscular disease.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

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