BloomInWinter
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I found this an interesting read. My trauma therapist believes this theory will eventually be confirmed as accurate.
I hope it does, and not just for those of us with PTSD already. I really hope this study will become leverage to be used to justify removing abused children from abusive homes far earlier in the process than they are now.
I also home my genes and my children's can be healed.
“In PTSD with a history of child abuse, we found a 12-fold higher [level] of epigenetic changes,” says Mehta. In contrast, people who experienced trauma later in life showed genetic effects that tended to be short-lived, and did not permanently alter the function of the genes.
“It’s a very interesting paper,” says Moshe Szyf, professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who studies epigenetics. “The important thing about this paper is that it looks at PTSD that has different life histories. One group has a life history of child abuse and the other doesn’t and we see a completely different functional genomic appearance.”
Source: http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/30/abused-children-may-get-different-form-of-ptsd/
I hope it does, and not just for those of us with PTSD already. I really hope this study will become leverage to be used to justify removing abused children from abusive homes far earlier in the process than they are now.
I also home my genes and my children's can be healed.
“In PTSD with a history of child abuse, we found a 12-fold higher [level] of epigenetic changes,” says Mehta. In contrast, people who experienced trauma later in life showed genetic effects that tended to be short-lived, and did not permanently alter the function of the genes.
“It’s a very interesting paper,” says Moshe Szyf, professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, who studies epigenetics. “The important thing about this paper is that it looks at PTSD that has different life histories. One group has a life history of child abuse and the other doesn’t and we see a completely different functional genomic appearance.”
Source: http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/30/abused-children-may-get-different-form-of-ptsd/