An ingeneious study of intergenerational transmission of the effects of PTSD

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 171, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 811-813

  Spiegel, David ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; DNA; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; PROTEIN; RNA;

DEPERSONALIZATION; DEREALIZATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DNA METHYLATION; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; EPIGENETICS; EXON; FATHER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GERM LINE; HOLOCAUST; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LOW DRUG DOSE; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; NR3C1 GENE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADULT CHILDREN; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; MALE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84905510995     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14050611     Document Type: Review

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