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A review of epigenetic contributions to post-traumatic stress disorder .
Dialogues in clinical neuroscience - 1 Dec 2019
Howie Hunter, Rijal Chuda M, Ressler Kerry J
Abstract excerpt
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a syndrome which serves as a classic example of psychiatric disorders that result from the intersection of nature and nurture, or gene and environment. By definition, PTSD requires the experience of a traumatic exposure, and yet data suggest that the risk for PTSD in the aftermath of trauma also has a heritable (genetic) component. Thus, PTSD appears to require both a...
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