Before The Trauma Summary

The reason thousands of veterans get PTSD every year is caused by inflammation, or atleast that is the cause according to the article “Before the Trauma”, by Moises Velasquez- Manoff -0otr. The article claims that “scientists had also noted odd signs of inflammation in the blood serum of PTSD” (Velasquez 59). They claim that biology alone will give insight to the core of the problem and that solving inflammation is the key to curing PTSD. They then don’t use humans to unveil how the brain and the immune system interact. They attempt to show the development and connection to PTSD through a series of experiments that are very loosely related to PTSD itself. I think that when they showed the images to the Israeli soldiers to see where the blood flow went was a bit of a reach. Of course when people who …show more content…
In another experiment they described women in ways that made them feel irritated to test their stress level. I think that this experiment even though it showed the temporary inflammation and activity in their amygdala was a complete joke, If you are going to openly describe women as “annoying” and “arrogant” to their faces they obviously will show signs of stress. If you prove that almost anyone can have inflammation in their blood serum why do only some people get PTSD? If 500,000 veterans seeked attention for their PTSD why is the number not higher if they all experienced the same trauma? According to the article the “best time to intervene in PTSD may be years-perhaps decades-before the trauma” (Velasquez 61). Which makes me wonder how are you supposed to prevent PTSD years before it even happens if everyone has a chance to develop it over the course of their life? A neuroscientist at SUNY claims that “looking at the expression of certain genes, many involved in inflammation,