Effects of Trauma could be Genetically Passed Down

National Geographic
Emerging science suggests that the effects of trauma could be genetically passed down from one generation to another.
“If you feel you have been affected by a very traumatic, difficult, life-altering experience that your mother or father has had, there’s something to that,” says Rachel Yehuda, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience of trauma at Mount Sinai in New York. Her research points to a small epigenetic “signal” that a life-altering experience “doesn’t just die with you,” she says. “It has a life of its own afterwards in some form.”
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