Thursday, 1 September 2016

Trauma's epigenetic fingerprint observed in children of Holocaust survivors

(Elsevier) The children of traumatized people have long been known to be at increased risk for posttraumatic stress disorder, and mood and anxiety disorders. However, according to Rachel Yehuda from the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who led a new study in Biological Psychiatry, there are very few opportunities to examine biologic alterations in the context of a watershed trauma in exposed people and their adult children born after the event.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science http://ift.tt/2c7mN9w

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