@Victoria Burns posted:Hi Ingrid. Thank you! I find the differentiation confusing because my understanding is that trauma from environmental issues like abuse and neglect, causes changes in the DNA (thus epigenetics); a traumatic "imprint" on the DNA is transmitted generation to generation.
Yes, trauma can be one of the causes of epigenetic changes but itβs not the only cause. Literally anything in the environment can cause epigenetic changes. Also epigenetic changes can be positive and negative.