Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Across Two Generations: Concordance and Mechanisms in a Population-Based Sample
Biological Psychiatry, 05/11/2012

Roberts AL et al. – Intergenerational association of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is clearly present in a large population–based sample. Children of women who had PTSD were more likely than children of women without PTSD to experience traumatic events; this suggests, in part, why the disorder is associated across generations. Health care providers who treat mothers with PTSD should be aware of the higher risk for trauma exposure and PTSD in their children.