User:Agreeves/Genetics of post-traumatic stress disorder

- Research has also found that PTSD shares many genetic influences common to other psychiatric disorders. Panic and generalized anxiety disorders and PTSD share 60% of the same genetic variance. Alcohol, nicotine, and drug dependence share greater than 40% genetic similarities. Additionally, there are a number of other disorders which share the same fundamental genetic phenotypes as PTSD, such as depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.

Nature vs. Nurture
An individual's potential for onset of many psychological disorders is heavily affected by genetic phenotypes, yet this is not the only contributing factor. Especially for trauma-based disorders, such as PTSD, environment plays an important role as well, considering that certain life experiences can trigger an underlying genetic phenotype to activate that might have been lying dormant beforehand. This can be further understood by examining the diathesis-stress model for the onset of psychological disorders, which explains that certain individuals, due to their genetic phenotypes, are more susceptible to psychological disorders when encountering the same stressful life situations or stimuli as other individuals without these same underlying genetic phenotypes.

By editing and contributing to this article on the relationship between genetics and PTSD, I hope to bring to the table a more diverse understanding of these relationships across different populations of individuals, such as the differences across racial groups or by gender. Each of the three sources I have selected thus far take a deeper look into differences in PTSD formation and genetics related to it based on gender and race (comparing white and black individuals). Hopefully, these resources can bring about a better understanding of these differences between certain groups of individuals.

Instructor Feedback:

While your edits are citing an appropriate example of recently published peer-reviewed secondary literature, I found your interpretation/translation of this information still in need of work. Please find commentary in line with text above. I would encourage you to go back to the original source to ensure the meaning you are trying to convey is still intact. I think some things were lost in translation. I think you are on the right track, but your edits still require a bit of work. I would encourage you to review the assignment rubric so you are aware of the areas I will be assessing. If you have questions/concerns, please let me know. Attempted to make these changes.

Peer Review Responses:

'''Mewallac: Attempted to reorganize and create a better flow of the information, as I agree that my additions previously sounded choppy. I appreciate their opinion that it felt like each sentence was jumping to a different topic and tried to expand the information and create a more conversation-like approach rather than leaping from one statement to the next.'''

'''Aebner01: Per reviewer's comments, I corrected the sentence structure and removed the example of height as a genetic phenotype, as I agree after looking back that it confused the point and made the connection more difficult, rather than more simple. Further, I added more detail and attempted to make more sound connections. Additionally, I will be taking note of the advice to create a new section regarding nature vs. nurture, which has been touched on within my most recent edits, and to divide the bulk of the article into further subsections to create more organization.'''

Williabd: '''The advice to add more sections has been noted previously, per Aebner's review, and I plan to include an additional section about the nature vs. nurture components of PTSD. Additionally, I plan on adding more information from further sources to be included within the article.'''

'''2 additional peer reviews would not open and could not be accessed. All advice and constructive criticism from 3 available reviews has been taken into consideration and has been added or will be added into the article shortly.'''