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.

?? CHECK IF THIS IS RIGHT FILE ON YOUTUBE? ZURICH SYNERGIES - LOCKDOWN 05

What do we mean when we talk about “trauma”? Isabelle and her PLEX-RPs take another shot at defining the phenomenon at the heart of her research - without which, a deeper understanding of the scientific and clinical ramifications are difficult to determine...
Episode 2 - Dealing With Mental Fallout of Trauma

What happens once you realise you have suffered severe childhood trauma? Cecilia reveals a bilateral approach to being bipolar...
Episode 3 - The Need to Network

Psychiatrists vs Psychologists - Cecilia and Hasna discuss the importance of having these two professions work in close collaboration when seeking a balanced approach to treating PLEX
Episode 4 - What Triggered Memory Of Trauma?

What happens when something hitherto forgotten comes back and unleashes emotional and psychological chaos? Cecilia begins to unravel the source of her issues and comes to a conclusion that couples courage with resolution...
Episode 5 - Being Labelled "Sick"

You want to know how being labelled as "mentally ill” can in and of itself destroy a life? Listen to Renaud as he so eloquently elucidates the semantic pitfalls and complex layers of guilt, stigma and hopelessness associated with coming
Episode 6 - Ideas for future collaboration...

Now that the Zurich SYNERGIES programme has attained cruising speed, Isabelle and the PLEX-RPs start to explore the possibility of other types of collaboration with a view to future publication...