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    Genes and Environment May Interact to Influence Risk for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
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    PTSD is a complex anxiety disorder that involves re-experiencing, avoidance and increased arousal following exposure to a life-threatening event. "In addition to the obvious effect of environmental factors, PTSD has a heritable component" the authors write, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Full Article at Kansas City Infozine
    In addition to the obvious effect of environmental factors, PTSD has a heritable component
    SOURCE: Kansas City Infozine 2 weeks ago
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Genes and Environment May Interact to Influence Risk for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
  1. Although the 5-HTTLPR genotype alone did not predict the onset of PTSD, it interacted with adult traumatic events and childhood adversity to increase the risk for PTSD, especially for those with high rates of both types of trauma exposure
    SOURCE: Kansas City Infozine 2 weeks ago
  2. It was only in the group of subjects who could be characterized as having had the highest rates of trauma exposure (i.e., in both childhood and adulthood) that an impact of 5-HTTLPR could be detected
    SOURCE: Kansas City Infozine 2 weeks ago