Most human traits and conditions are part-nature, part-nurture. Even for people with “nature” conditions like genetic anomalies, “nurture” still factors into their adaptations and quality of life. For this assignment:
Choose a trait or condition. Physical health issues are appropriate, as are mental health issues with at least a fairly well-understood physical component.
Research to what extent this condition or trait is nature, to what extent it is nurture, and to what extent is it a product of nature affecting nurture or vice versa. An example would be post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is “nature” in the sense of abnormal amygdala activation. It is also “nurture” in the sense that a traumatic event has to have caused this activation. It is nature-affects-nurture in that the affect of people with PTSD and other anxiety disorders engenders reactions from others that might lead to their being more – or less – supportive. It is nurture-affects-nature in the sense that the brain can be “retrained,” through eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, to reduce the intensity of traumatic reactivation. The finished product will be
