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To: jbe who wrote (36547)	8/29/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Just got back from a brief tour through PubMed. I don't know whether we are talking apples and oranges, here, Joan, we may be. I am talking about the recent studies that show that some people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder have brain damage, to the amygdala and the hippocampus. Which is probably a subset of people with PTSD, I assume. And I am saying that we don't know whether a damaged amygdala and/or hippocampus predisposes one to PTSD when suffering trauma, or whether PTSD causes damage to the amygdala and hippocampus. Which is a continuation of my ruminations as to whether people who suffer some traumas are singled out, due to some imperceptible defect, just as animals kill their weak members. Edit: I wish that scientists would study the brains of people like Mark Barton and Ted Bundy, to see if we can determine what makes them "tick".