THE EPIGENETICS OF TRAUMA

Zurich, Switzerland

Seeking Novel Markers For Diagnostics and Treatment Response

Trauma-induced disorders are usually marked in individuals directly exposed but strikingly, they can also affect their offspring sometimes across generations.

This project, at the frontier between epigenetics and molecular psychiatry, aims to study how childhood trauma can influence mental and physical health across generations.

Episode 1 - What Is Trauma?

Isabelle digs deep in an effort to explain what trauma means to her, with a little help from her PLEX Research Partners of course…
Episode 2 - Humiliation and How Destructive It Is

What shape can trauma take? Isabelle Mansuy’s group touch upon the impact of childhood humiliation...
Episode 3 - The Impact of SYNERGIES

Isabelle Mansuy begins a discussion around how SYNERGIES has altered her world view and what this implies for the future of her research...
Episode 4 - Why Me?

Cecile attempts to address the injustice of mental illness when she asks "why me?"
Episode 5- Does This Make You Angry?

Cecilia and Renaud reveal how they deal with anger and how acceptance rather than forgiveness is the more likely the solution...
Episode 6 - The Physical Legacy of Trauma

Trauma - never mind the mind, trauma leaves scars everywhere in the body...
Episode 7 - Why Use Mice For These Experiments?

Epigenetics or just plain old genetic variability? Tracking changes in DNA means you need to start with a level playing field and Isabelle explains why mice are the model subject...