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Mark Wolynn

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

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  • Widyahas quoted6 years ago
    the DNA responsible for transmitting physical traits, such as the color of our hair, eyes, and skin—surprisingly makes up less than 2 percent of our total DNA.14 The other 98 percent consists of what is called noncoding DNA (ncDNA), and is responsible for many of the emotional, behavioral, and personality traits we inherit.
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted3 days ago
    The researchers also found that the germ cells—the precursor egg and sperm cells
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted4 days ago
    Traumas, not only from war but from any event significant enough to disrupt the emotional equilibrium in our family—a crime, a suicide, an early death, a sudden or unexpected loss—can lead to our reliving trauma symptoms from the past.
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted4 days ago
    Children of Holocaust survivors, for example, inherited variances in the enzyme that converts active cortisol to inactive cortisol based on whether their mothers were younger or were adults during the Holocaust.
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted4 days ago
    children of fathers who had PTSD are “probably more prone to depression or chronic stress responses.”
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted4 days ago
    Paternal PTSD, she discovered, increases the likelihood that the child will feel “dissociated from [his or] her memories,” whereas maternal PTSD increases the likelihood that a child will have difficulty “calming down.”
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted4 days ago
    epigenetics research is finally beginning to provide substantial evidence that intergenerational trauma is a real phenomenon
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted4 days ago
    “The parent’s trauma,” he says, “becomes the child’s own and [the child’s] behavioral and emotional issues can mirror those of the parent.”
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted4 days ago
    “Epigenetic Mechanisms of Depression,”
  • Paola Garduñohas quoted4 days ago
    “Our research demonstrates [that] genes . . . retain some memory of their past experiences,”
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