THIS IS THE SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL.

POST-traumatic stress disorder; EMOTIONAL trauma; EPIGENETICS; CHILDREN of Holocaust survivors; YEHUDA, Rachel; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY

The article looks at the effects of traumatic experiences on the victims and their children. It discusses research by psychologists including Rachel Yehuda on the physiological and genetic changes associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and on how they can be reflected in the next generation. Topics include behavioral epigenetics, and families of survivors of traumas including the Cambodian genocide and the Jewish holocaust are profiled.