Video: Mice can inherit learned sensitivity to smell
Friday, January 17, 2014 - 08:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Trauma can scar people so indelibly that their children are affected. History provides examples of generations traumatized by war and starvation whose children experience altered physiology. Emory University researchers Kerry Ressler and Brian Dias have showed that an experience linked with a smell can modify the architecture of the nervous systems in later generations.