What is it?
What is Intergenerational Trauma?
Trauma passed down from trauma survivor to their offspring.
Trauma is passed on from who to who?
What does intergenerational trauma often look simular to?
PTSD
What does epigenetics change?
How genes express themselves
Name two causes of Intergenerational Trauma.
Residential School, Abuse, Holocaust, Refugee
How can a child can learn trauma responses?
Through observing non-verbal trauma responses.
Name one symptom that someone who has delt with intergenerational trauma may have.
Anxiety, hypervigilance, mood dysregulation
PTSD can lead to an overproduction of what hormone?
Cortisol
What is Epigenetics?
The way that ones environment effects their genes.
How can a child inherit trauma genetically?
Epigenetics
What is a symptom of PTSD that someone who experienced intergenerational trauma will NOT have?
Flashbacks
What part of the brain is correlated with the stress response (flight, fight or freeze)?
Amygdala
In Brittany Barkers study on drug users, what precent of participants self-identified as Indigenous?
40%
What is a mark left on DNA from epigenetics called?
Chemical epigenetic mark or a chemical signature
According to Elder Moore how many generations will the actions we do today effect?
7
What part of the brain has increased activity levels in someone with PTSD?
In Brittany Barker's Study what fraction of Indigenous participants had a older relative in residential school?
2/3
If a child's parents both have PTSD what change happens in the DNA, and in simple words what does this do for the child?
lower methylation of this promoter region [GR] meaning there's an increased sensitivity to cortisol
Name at least two challenges a family who has experienced intergenerational trauma may go through
Mental Health, financial strain, violence, abuse, substance abuse.
High stress pregnancy cause alterations in how many brain molecules of neonatal pups?
50