This is a really interesting article about the epi-genetics of trauma. It discusses biological PTSD, familial PTSD, and cultural PTSD. “What Yehuda hopes to do is nothing less than untangle the web of relationships among biology, culture, and history. Do social forces transform our biology? Or does biology “permeate the social and cultural fiber”? How do you even begin to tease these things apart?” “At the frontier of this research lies a very delicate question: whether some people, and some populations, are simply more susceptible to damage than others. We think of resilience to adversity as a function of character or culture. But as researchers unravel the biology of trauma, the more it seems that some people are likelier to be broken by calamity while others are likelier to endure it.” newrepublic/article/120144/trauma-genetic-scientists-say-parents-are-passing-ptsd-kids
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:14:36 +0000
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