The Dog Zombie

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Veterinary super heroes!

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V-FORCE from the AVMA I was tickled to discover that the AVMA published a comic book. V-Force! Veterinarians to the Rescue! Did yo...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Can a father's stressful experiences affect his offspring's stress system?

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I am again indebted to my APDT students, who asked a very interesting question which turned into a blog post. This time it was: “Can a fathe...
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Monday, July 28, 2014

What percent nature? What percent nurture?

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The Nature versus Nurture debate is over: we no longer ask if genetics governs personality or if environment does. They work together, and i...
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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Why genetics and dog training?

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I won’t lie to you. When I first started thinking about teaching genetics courses for the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, I was mo...
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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Fish personalities?!

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My mobile buzzed: I had a text message from my husband. I’m bored. Call me. He was driving to New England and stuck in traffic. I called....
Sunday, May 4, 2014

On nature and nurture and their interactions to make a personality

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My mom called me yesterday because she had experienced some Science and was excited about it. She was watching a TV episode about aggression...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

I'm not dead

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Dear everybody: I'm not dead, I'm just spending all my writing energy writing other things than blog posts. I keep asking my brain f...
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Marlborough, MA, United States
Jessica Perry Hekman, DVM, PhD is fascinated by dog brains. She is a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she studies the genetics of dog behavior. Her interests include the stress response in mammals, canine behavior, canine domestication, shelter medicine, animal welfare, and open access publishing. You may learn more about Jessica at www.dogzombie.com, or email her at jph at dogzombie dot com. All opinions expressed here are her own.
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