Parental Holocaust trauma linked to higher risk of schizophrenia in offspring, new study finds

Can the trauma of a parent rewrite the mental health of a child born decades later?

A new study reveals that children born decades after the Holocaust to parents who were older than 5 at the time of the initial Nazi persecutions faced an elevated schizophrenia risk.

This preconception echo underscores specific periods of vulnerability to trauma experienced in childhood and suggests that the shadows of atrocities can quietly reach across generations.

The findings are published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. ...