What the noses of mice can tell us about the inheritance of trauma
In the final year of World War II, Nazi troops starved the Netherlands in a brutal event known as the Dutch Hunger Winter. Some 20,000 people died and millions more suffered from this man-made famine. The survivors went on to have children and even grandchildren with increased rates of metabolic issues like diabetes, hypertension, and schizophrenia.
“What does it mean to have a reflection of starvation in a grandparent in an offspring?” said Bianca Jones Marlin, a neuroscientist at the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University. Marlin investigates how trauma and stress can be inherited from one generation to the next.
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