New research has found a specific change in brain chemistry due to trauma. An article on Medscape.com says:
“Lower serotonin 1B levels were also strongly associated with age at first trauma. The earlier the trauma exposure, the greater the brain alterations and the greater the severity of PTSD symptoms, and the greater the risk of developing comorbidities,” senior author Alexander Neumeister, MD, associate professor of psychiatry at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, told Medscape Medical News.
“These findings establish that trauma at a young age causes long-lasting neurobiological and psychological effects in survivors with PTSD. In other words, early-life trauma can interfere with normal brain development,” he said.
The article is somewhat technical, but lay readers like us can pretty much follow what is being discussed. To read the story, you need to register for Medscape.com, which is free.
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no Darwinsmom. it’s oldszeimers. 🙂 in coming years, you will speak to Friends and not for the life of you recall their name and then two seconds after you turn away, you’ll remember. 🙂
ps my ptsd messed up my short term memory but not long term.
Hens
I had a dream of you last night. I was talking to you on the phone and told you it would be easier to look for a relationship and then ask your partner to dress western than to look for a western man who would be your partner. Think it was b/c I watched Tom Selleck before bed. 🙂
Katy – I have halfszeimers. or did I already say that? where did I put my keys?
Tom ?
Oh halfzeimers is better than oldszeimers. Too many people keep agreeing with ME! Think I’ll steal halfzeimers from you….
🙂 !!!!!!
DARWINSMOM!!!
Make sure you get a mental and PHYSICAL examination/evalutation for your PTSD. Many symptoms of PTSD are also symptoms of serious medical issues like I have. I should have seen a GP much sooner than I did, I just thought it was PTSD. Oh boy… was that sooo wrong. I have a thyroid disease that gives symptoms simlilar to PTSD until it gets so advanced that I was almost comatose. Make sure you check it out. Don’t wind up using a cane like I did before I figured out it was more than PTSD.
Blessings to you!
Katy: in coming years, you will speak to Friends and not for the life of you recall their name and then two seconds after you turn away, you’ll remember. 🙂
Euhm I never remember names.. LOL.. only faces! Just ran into my first one night stand of 11-12 years ago. We neither of us could remember the name… LOL… but we remembered everything else that was decent to talk about.
Did anybody else just feel the earth quake? 5.6 – I thot I was passing out, the house was swaying and the earth was growling.dont like em..
Holy Moly Hens……5.6 is a biggie!
Can’t say I felt yours…..but we had a 4.8 brief one last week.
Stay grounded and stop wiggling dear!