Anxiety

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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b disorder that affects about 10 percent of those exposed to extreme psychological trauma, such as combat, torture, abuse, physical attack, sexual attack, severe accident, natural disaster or life-threatening illness.

People who suffer from the disorder re-experience the trauma in nightmares or intrusive thoughts.

Many avoid reminders of the trauma location.

Many become emotionally numb or show hypersensitivity to other events by doing things like getting startled easily.

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researchers have found relatively short periods of stress induced changes in mouse brain neurons that lasted for weeks and made them hypersensitive - in a way also characteristic of people suffering long-term effects of traumatic stress.

In a study published in Science, the researchers said stress causes a shift in gene products - called mRNAs - by producing an unusual variant of the acetylcholinesterase or AChE protein.

The variant protein AChE-R interferes with the transmission of nerve impulses that can affect memory and behavior.

Stress caused by a traumatic event can result in the production of the variant protein for a long time, even years, according to Hermona Soreq, head of the research team at Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University.

Most memories decay naturally, but people under extreme stress pump an abnormal amount of stress hormones during the traumatic event, so the memories are stored differently, according to Dr.

Alain Brunet, professor of psychiatry at McGil...

...ba href=/anxiety/a/b to please that differentiates the tone somewhat from the first outing.

Not that the small fry will notice.

(Deluxe color); editor, Harry Hitner; music, John Powell; art director, Thomas Cardone; character designer, Peter de Seve; sound designer (Dolby/DTS), Randy Thom; line producer, Bob Gordon; casting, Christian Kaplan.

Reviewed at Avco Cinemas, Los Angeles, March 25, 2006.

MPAAMPAA Rating: PG.

Running time: 90 MIN.

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