Recovering memories that never left

sea-maid submitted, created time 1 month 2 days (www.sciencenews.org)

There may be no single, simple explanation for reports of recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse. Witness the first evidence that people who report such recall display either of two cognitive profiles, one signaling a susceptibility to retrieving false memories and the other a tendency to have forgotten earlier recollections of actual abuse

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Abused kids may be more prone to asthma

jerry submitted, created time 4 months 1 week (www.newscientist.com)

Physical or sexual abuse doubles the odds that a child – from Puerto Rico, at least – will suffer from asthma...

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Gene variant increases risk for alcoholism following childhood abuse

BIOBOSS submitted, created time 1 year 6 months (www.eurekalert.org)

Girls who suffered childhood sexual abuse are more likely to develop alcoholism later in life if they possess a particular variant of a gene involved in the body's response to stress, according to a new study led by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, part of the National Institutes of Health. The new finding could help explain why some individuals are more resilient to profound childhood trauma than others.

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