{"id":202028,"date":"2024-12-20T14:31:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/can-trauma-be-inherited-through-genes"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T20:31:35","slug":"can-trauma-be-inherited-through-genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/can-trauma-be-inherited-through-genes","title":{"rendered":"Can trauma be inherited through genes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-trauma-be-inherited-through-genes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The field \u201ctouches on all the questions that humanity has asked since it was walking on this planet,\u201d says Moshe Szyf, a professor of pharmacology at McGill University. \u201cHow much of our destiny is predetermined? How much of it do we control?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For some people, the concept that we can carry a legacy of trauma makes sense because it validates their sense that they are more than the sum of their experiences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you feel you have been affected by a very traumatic, difficult, life-altering experience that your mother or father has had, there\u2019s something to that,\u201d says Rachel Yehuda, professor of psychiatry and neuroscience of trauma at Mount Sinai in New York. <a class=\"\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/ajp.psychiatryonline.org\/doi\/10.1176\/appi.ajp.2019.19060618\">Her research<\/a> points to a small epigenetic \u201csignal\u201d that a life-altering experience \u201cdoesn\u2019t just die with you,\u201d she says. \u201cIt has a life of its own afterwards in some form.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field \u201ctouches on all the questions that humanity has asked since it was walking on this planet,\u201d says Moshe Szyf, a professor of pharmacology at McGill University. \u201cHow much of our destiny is predetermined? How much of it do we control?\u201d For some people, the concept that we can carry a legacy of trauma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}