Audio running time: 24:52 minutes

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Learning outcomes:

By the end of this podcast, we hope that you will be able to:

• better appreciate the importance of gene-environment interactions in the understanding of the aetiology of psychiatric disorders
  
  
• understand the background to the scientific focus on gene-environment interactions
  
  
• better appreciate how environmental factors have the capacity to switch genes on or off
  
  
• recognise the role of gene switching effects from previous generations in the genetic basis for psychiatric disorder
  
  
• understand the way gene-environment interactions are not contant but changing throughout a lifespan.

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