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Living the Legacy: intergenerational transference of PTSD among children and grandchildren of Vietnam veterans: the role of epigenetics. Abstract. There is little known about the intergenerational effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) upon the children and grandchildren of Vietnam veterans in Australia. This is an issue that is attracting growing interest in community and Australian Federal Government sectors and one that livens debates and discussions from conference centres to coffee shops. The classic “Nature-Nurture” debate lives on in this issue. Introduction. How can it be, that two subsequent generations can be connected to the same environmental experience, even though the second generation did not experience the original event? Can it be plausible that a change in environmental conditions that threaten an individual’s life can produce altered psychological and physical characteristics in that individual’s offspring, to enhance the survival of the species? Recent research seems to support this assertion. The psychological and physical ramifications of the Vietnam War are manifesting themselves in the children and grandchildren of the Veterans that developed PTSD (Australian Medical Association (AMA), 2006) and research suggests that many of the psychological consequences may be misdiagnosed (Scott, 2004; Strand et al, 2005), and therefore mistreated, producing not only a drain on our already limited resources, but possibly acerbating the negative social, community and individual effects attributable to the legacy of PTSD.
PTSD is an issue that has been exhaustively explored and researched since its public emergence after the Vietnam War. Vietnam veterans across the world have been poked and prodded extensively over the past 40 years to the extent where there is very little the mental health community does not know about PTSD in the Vietnam veteran. However, what is lacking in knowledge and understanding is how the psychological sequale of the traumas of the Vietnam experience is affecting the veteran’s first and second generation offspring: how an event in one generation can have significant effects on the next, and the next. This paper explores some of the recent research emerging that supports assertions for epigenetic influences in the intergenerational transmission of PTSD.
PTSD is an issue that has been exhaustively explored and researched since its public emergence after the Vietnam War. Vietnam veterans across the world have been poked and prodded extensively over the past 40 years to the extent where there is very little the mental health community does not know about PTSD in the Vietnam veteran. However, what is lacking in knowledge and understanding is how the psychological sequale of the traumas of the Vietnam experience is affecting the veteran’s first and second generation offspring: how an event in one generation can have significant effects on the next, and the next. This paper explores some of the recent research emerging that supports assertions for epigenetic influences in the intergenerational transmission of PTSD.
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I am interested in this one in particular, even though I am in the US.
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