Intergenerational PTSD: Epigenetics may hold explanation
Friday, November 30th, 2007[#2: Edit Options>MightyAdsense>Adsense Code]
Corpus Callosum blogs about the study, “Transgenerational Transmission of Cortisol and PTSD Risk” by Rachel Yehuda and Linda M. Bierer, which discovered that lower cortisol levels were observed in the offspring of Holocaust survivors, suggesting a link between parental experiences of PTSD and an increased risk of their children experiencing PTSD.
Epigenetics is still […]