Director, Traumatic Stress Studies Division, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Yehuda is a leading researcher in the field of trauma and its intergenerational effects, focusing on how exposure to trauma can alter gene expression.
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.
