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Showing posts with label intergenerational effects of trauma. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 7, 2022

Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Have Altered Stress Hormones [Scientific American, March 2022]

Title:
Descendants of Holocaust Survivors Have Altered Stress Hormones
 
Author:
Tori Rodriguez
 
Published: 
Scientific American, 1 March 2022

From the article:
A person's experience as a child or teenager can have a profound impact on their future children's lives, new work is showing. Rachel Yehuda, a researcher in the growing field of epigenetics and the intergenerational effects of trauma, and her colleagues have long studied mass trauma survivors and their offspring.