TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS IN LIGHT OF EPIGENETICAL RESEARCH

• Authors: Varga Katalin

Title variants

HU

A transzgenerációs hatások az epigenetikai kutatások tükrében

• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

Transgenerational effects are well-known in clinical work. The effect of trauma may appear in those persons who themselves had not been directly involved in the original traumatic event, but their ancestors somehow passed it on to them. The modern epigenetic research provides biological explanation concerning the mechanism of transgenerational transmission. This means that different sets of genes can be silenced or activated depending on the epigenetical mechanisms, meanwhile the basic DNA sequence is the same. This way the epigenetical mechanisms allow the organism to react quickly to the environmental change, and these can be transmitted to the next generation if the conditions remain the same. This paper – following the short discussion of these mechanisms – raises some perinatal and psychotherapeutical implications of these phenomena.

Keywords

EN

transgenerational effect; trauma; epigenetics; perinatal period; mothering; oxytocin

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 507-532
• Document type: REVIEW

Contributors

author

Varga Katalin