Professor, Marlene & Joel Dwarf Family Chair in the Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
Dr. Meaney is a prominent neuroscientist known for his work on maternal care and its epigenetic effects on offspring development.
Can the trauma your grandparents lived through actually rewire your biology — or has epigenetics become a buzzword stretched far beyond what the science supports? Dr. Rachel Yehuda and Dr. Bruce Perry debate whether pain truly gets passed down through generations, or whether environment and upbringing tell most of the story.