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Trauma of 9/11 appears to have altered brains, study
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| Article Type: | Brief article |
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Psychic trauma
(Physiological aspects) Psychic trauma (Social aspects) Terrorism (Psychological aspects) |
| Pub Date: | 11/01/2008 |
| Publication: | Name: Human Ecology Publisher: Cornell University, Human Ecology Audience: Academic Format: Magazine/Journal Subject: Health; Science and technology; Social sciences Copyright: COPYRIGHT 2008 Cornell University, Human Ecology ISSN: 1530-7069 |
| Issue: | Date: Nov, 2008 Source Volume: 36 Source Issue: 2 |
| Topic: | Event Name: World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001 Event Code: 290 Public affairs |
| Product: | Product Code: 9101340 Terrorist Control; 9916550 Security Mgmt-Kidnapping & Terrorism NAICS Code: 92212 Police Protection |
| Geographic: | Geographic Scope: United States Geographic Code: 1USA United States |
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| Accession Number: | 231021632 |
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Healthy adults who were close to the World Trade Center during the
terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, have less gray matter in key
emotion centers of their brains compared with people who were more than
200 miles away, according to a new Human Ecology study. The study--one of the first to look at the effects of trauma on the brains of healthy adults--follows a Cornell study by the same authors that found people living near the World Trade Center on 9/11 have brains that are more reactive to such emotional stimuli as photographs of fearful faces. Combined, the two studies provide an emerging picture of what happens in the brains of healthy people who experience a traumatic event. Both were conducted by postdoctoral fellow Barbara Ganzel. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The smaller volume of gray matter--composed largely of cells and capillary blood vessels--found was in areas that process emotion and may be, Ganzel said, the brain's normal response to trauma. The subjects in the study did not suffer from any mental or physical health disorders. |
| Gale Copyright: | Copyright 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning. All rights reserved. |
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