HEIRS Health, Wellness, Disease and Hints for Better Living!: trauma

This blog provides information and resources for healthier living, wellness and a number of health topics including specific medical conditions. It is also a resource for conditions commonly considered to be environmental illnesses including CFS, FM, PTSD, obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, MCS, heart disease, and a number of other conditions that are potentiated by contaminants in the air, soil and water including autism, sick building syndrome and sickness behavior just to name a few. This blog will try to focus on less scientific and more real-world news and application.

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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Trauma changes genes linked to PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder causes changes in immune system genes and may compromise immunity, putting people at risk of disease, U.S. researchers suggest. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)

Trauma changes genes linked to PTSD

Monday, November 9, 2009

Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury

For decades, researchers have hoped to uncover the biological mechanisms behind post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), increasingly common afflictions among both soldiers and civilians.

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