Breakthrough: The Trauma Tracer

Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD, researches the science of love and trauma through generations. She is a neuroscientist and Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University work to find and potentially even modify the epigenetic switches responsible for changing the children’s biology or behavior—ultimately improving the outcomes for the children. “... during a traumatic event, we are still using our senses to create those memories,” says Marlin. “What we’re exploring is if these memories are actually then passed down to the subsequent generations and what that would look like biologically.”