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The effects of traumatic events can be felt over several generations. Researchers have already shown that stress-related behavioral disorders can be passed on from rodents to their offspring.
Sciences et Avenir, 2024
Can trauma be inherited through genes?
A life-altering experience “doesn’t just die with you,” one expert says. “It has a life of its own afterwards.”
National Geographic
by Andrea Cooper, 2024
In this presentation, we explore the impact of trauma on our brains, body and behaviour, and assess the latest research in the field of epigenetics.
Peace River Center
by Donna Rininger, 2024
Isabelle Mansuy explores how life experiences alter the epigenome of an organism and its descendants.
Exploring Drug Discovery and Development
by Hannah Thomassy, 2023
Isabelle Mansuy’s neuroepigenetics lab researches the impact of life experiences and environmental factors on mental health, exploring if these impacts can be passed on to descendants.
Science and Nonduality
by Dom Byrne, 2023
Das Erbe des Horrors
The psychological devastation caused by war and catastrophes can still have a psychological impact on descendants. Epigeneticists are on the trail of the messengers of horror.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
by Peter Spork, 2023
Belastende Erlebnisse beeinflussen Kinder und Kindeskinder. Forschung an Tieren bestätigt: Traumata können vererbt werden. Doch beim Menschen sind die Zusammenhänge vielschichtiger. Wir sind den Erfahrungen unserer Elterngeneration nicht hilflos ausgeliefert.
NZZ
by Fabienne Hübener, 2023
Werden die Schrecken des Krieges bis in die heutigen Generationen vererbt?
Kann ein Erlebnis wie die Bombennächte des Zweiten Weltkriegs Menschen beeinflussen, die diese nie erlebt haben, auf die zweite und dritte Generation nach dem Weltkrieg? Diesen Fragen gehen die Leipziger Psychologin Heide Glaesmer und die Schweizer Neurobiologin Isabelle Mansuy mit unterschiedlichen Ansätzen nach.
Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk
by Johanna Weinhold, 2023
Emotional trauma can have far-reaching consequences and even affect offspring. Professors Isabelle Mansuy and Katharina Gapp are researching how the consequences of trauma are inherited epigenetically.
My Science
by Fabio Bergamin, 2023
Wenn ein Trauma Generationen überdauert.
Beobachter
by Anna Gielas, 2023
It is well-established that traumatic experiences can lead to various types of DNA modifications, both epigenetic and non-genetic, including DNA methylation, non-coding RNAs, and post-translational histone modifications. Recent evidence suggests that these modifications may be inherited by subsequent generations, even in the absence of direct exposure to the trauma.
LIFENCY media, 2023
This article addresses the question of how trauma memories are transmitted and whether there are biological mechanisms that enable the transmission of this information beyond environmental upbringing.
Seattle Anxiety Specialists
by Theresa Nair, 2023
The legacy of trauma
Emotional trauma can have far-reaching ripple effects and may even reverberate across generations. Professors Isabelle Mansuy and Katharina Gapp study how the effects of trauma can be inherited through epigenetic mechanisms.
Globe Magazine
by Fabio Bergamin, 2023
Neglect, calamitous events or even abuse: traumatic childhood experiences increase the risk of mental and physical illness and can lead to psychiatric disorders later in life. But how do stressful events early in life persistently affect brain functions? What happens in a child’s nerve cells when fear and stress overwhelm their normal coping mechanisms?
Swiss Science Today
by Christoph Elhardt, 2023
A team of researchers have identified a biological mechanism that enables traumatic experiences to be embedded in germ cells. Their study suggests that childhood trauma can embed signs in the blood and can be passed on to children and even grandchildren.
Easy DNA, 2022
Traumatische Erlebnisse bewirken Veränderungen im Gehirn, die zu psychischen Krankheiten führen können. Die Neurowissenschaftlerin Isabelle Mansuy erklärt, wie die sogenannte Neuroepigenetik neue Therapien hervorbringen könnte.
PPP&K, 2022
Bindung und Brokkoli
ELTERN-Autorin
Der Zürcher Professorin Isabelle Mansuy redet über abwesende Mäuseväter, vererbbare Zähigkeit und grünen Tee.
Eltern
by Kerstin Güntzel, 2021
Interview mit Prof. Dr. Isabelle Mansuy, Institut für Hirnforschung der Universität Zürich und Institut für Neurowissenschaften der ETH Zürich.
Wiley Analytical Science Magazine
by Corinna Herbst, 2021
Ein Attentat, eine Vergewaltigung, Folter, Krieg, Vertreibung: Traumatische Erlebnisse können nicht nur durch ein verändertes Verhalten weitergegeben werden, sondern auch durch Vererbung. Darauf deuten Versuche mit Mäusen hin.
Planet Wissen
by Martina Janning, 2021
We don't have to pass down everything we inherit.
Psychology Today
by Elizabeth Dixon, 2021
People who live through traumatic experiences in childhood often suffer long-lasting consequences that affect their mental and physical health. But moreover, their children and grandchildren can also be impacted as well.
Buruda Biliyorum, 2020
People who live through traumatic experiences in childhood often suffer long-lasting consequences that affect their mental and physical health. Their children and grandchildren can be affected as well. The big question is how signals triggered by traumatic events are embedded in germ cells.
Genetic Literacy Project
by Rita Ziegler, 2020
New Study Sheds Light On How Childhood Trauma Is Passed Down Generations.
IFLScience, 2020
Passing down health problems
Brain researchers from Zurich have discovered that people with trauma pass their health problems on to their offspring through blood.
Generations.
Archyde, 2020
People who experienced childhood trauma usually suffer lifelong consequences that impact their physical and mental health. And besides this, the children and grand-children of such individuals may also be affected as well.
AZO Life Sciences, 2020
Early childhood trauma has an impact on glucose metabolism and blood composition, which are passed on to the next generation.
Neuroscience News, 2020
TPeople who live through traumatic experiences in childhood often suffer long-lasting consequences that affect their mental and physical health. But moreover, their children and grand-children can also be impacted as well. The big question is how the signals triggered by traumatic events become embedded in germ cells.
Technology Networks, 2020
Kann man sich mit viel Gemüse und grünem Tee genetisch umprogrammieren? Gar nicht so abwegig, wenn man Isabelle Mansuy glauben darf. Im Interview mit »Spektrum.de« erklärt Isabelle Mansuy, wie die Ernährung Spuren am Erbgut hinterlässt und was das für die Enkelkinder bedeuten kann.
Spektrum
by Frederik Jötten, 2020
Ein Kindheitstrauma führt bei Mäusen und Menschen zur Veränderung von Blutfaktoren, wie eine Studie des UZH-Instituts für Hirnforschung zeigt. Diese potenziell gesundheitsschädlichen Effekte übertragen sich im Mausmodell auch auf die Nachkommen. Die Forschenden identifizierten einen biologischen Mechanismus, durch den die traumatischen Erfahrungen in die Keimbahn eingebettet werden.
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (UZH)
by Rita Ziegler, 2020
Paranüsse, Parmesan und Brokkoli: Forscherin Isabelle Mansuy rät zu einer Diät, die unser Erbgut positiv beeinflussen soll. Ihre Thesen sind umstritten.
Berliner Zeitung
by Frederik Jötten, 2020
Was unsere Vorfahren assen und fühlten, prägt die Gesundheit heutiger Generationen
Higgs
by Katrin Schregenberger, 2020