Can memories be encoded across generations?
Studies of familial psychopathology, specifically of "imperative ideas and actions", indicate a frequent transgenerational occurrence. These affectively highly charged complexes (memories) are encoded, it is speculated, across generations by a genetic mechanism.
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005823:Genetics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000235:genetics; D014190:Transvestism / Q000235:genetics