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To: jbe who wrote (36545)	8/29/1999 3:40:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I don't object to "tinkering" with neurochemistry; I tinker with mine all the time. As for the brain damage which you say must have been "caused" by the trauma of stress, I don't recall any double-blind studies, comparing cohorts of people who experienced trauma and suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, with cohorts of people who experienced trauma without suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. As far as I know, and I may be wrong, the finding that a damaged hippocampus is associated with PTS is quite new. This may be a case of "post hoc, ergo propter hoc." So I hypothesize that a defective brain may make one more inclined to PTS. We all know that studies of people who survived the Holocaust showed that they were more resilient than the population at large. If anyone should have suffered PTS, it was them.