Generational trauma can be passed down through families by biological, environmental, psychological, and social means. You may experience epigenetic changes, which affect gene expression linked to ...

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My parents are fairly anxious people. They are always 10 minutes early to every event and are typically sitting at the airport terminal 2 hours before boarding a flight. My brother and I inherited ...

Newswise — We know that stress affects our mental and physical health, but groundbreaking research shows its impact goes even deeper, down to the genetic level. Dr. Connie Mulligan, a renowned ...

The effects of trauma ripple through a family lineage, impacting subsequent generations even if they weren’t present during the original traumatic event. Generational trauma is a form of trauma passed ...

As war continues to rage in Gaza and Ukraine, there is concern about how the related trauma might be transmitted to future generations of people in those regions. More generally, interest in the idea ...

We’ve long known the short-term effects of trauma — headaches, changes in appetite or sleep, fear, anxiety and concentration troubles are just a few. A new study suggests that severe trauma, like that ...

Few areas of modern biology have generated as much anxiety as epigenetics, the study of molecular changes that alter how ...

Early-life adversity is a well-established correlate of later mental ill-health, yet developmental outcomes are highly heterogeneous. This review advances a ...

When I was a child, my elderly neighbors stepped up in ways that changed my life. He sat with me and helped me learn to read when I was behind; she offered warmth, encouragement, and stability. They ...