News Genes in children linked to stress, bipolar disorder

[MyPTSD]

Genetic alterations that can be modulated by stress have been identified in children at high risk for bipolar disorder, according to a recently published study by researchers at McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Results appeared in Translational Psychiatry, a Nature Publishing Group journal.

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[Kintsugi]

Epigenetics, yeah? Isn't this also the thinking behind the biological effects of intergenerational trauma?

I feel certain I was kinda screwed from utero. Everything that followed over the next 18 years just built on that craptastic foundation. PTSD was no certainty, but my problematic gestation couldn't have helped.

 

[Deadman]

Seems like a double whammy alright. Inherited BPD tendencies get exacerbated by having a BP parent.

I keep telling myself there has to be some survival advantage to this sort of stuff.