Evidence for biological roots in the transgenerational transmission of intimate partner violence

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Cordero, M I ^a,b   Poirier, G L ^a   Marquez, C ^a   Veenit, V ^a   Fontana, X ^a   Salehi, B ^a   Ansermet, F ^b   Sandi, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b Hopital des Enfants Hopitaux universitaires de Geneve   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

early life; epigenetics; psychopathology; stress; transgenerational transmission; violence

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PROGENY; RAT; RISK FACTOR; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEAR; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; NEURONS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RISK FACTORS; SEROTONIN; SPOUSE ABUSE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84860275503     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2012.32     Document Type: Article

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