Posted by antigua3 on January 29, 2009, at 10:33:44
In reply to Epigenetics and mental illness, posted by Larry Hoover on January 17, 2009, at 20:19:46
I would have to question that PTSD is an epigenetic phenomenon. I just don't see it. Maybe based on our genetics, my children might be more likely to have PTSD if something damaging happens to them, but I don't think epigenetics would be a predictor that something would happen to them to result in PTSD.
Or maybe I'm not understanding. PTSD is related to an event(s) that occur and that seems to me to be an environmental/social factor rather than genetics.
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