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TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS IN LIGHT OF EPIGENETICAL RESEARCH

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Varga K.
Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
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2011
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vol. 66
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issue 3
507-532
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.
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