post-traumatic stress syndrome

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Gina Poe, a neurobiology professor in UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, said she feared that her decades of research into memory, sleep and post-traumatic stress syndrome were threatened.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 9, 2025

Prosecutor Travis White said the boy, now 7, had problems with “basic socialization” and suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome and insomnia, among other disorders.

From Washington Times • Dec. 15, 2023

American troops sent to Afghanistan, Iraq and so many other countries came home suffering everything from literal wounds to severe post-traumatic stress syndrome.

From Salon • Jun. 16, 2023

A symptom of post-traumatic stress syndrome, some experts regard nightmares as the mind’s effort to make meaning and help feelings become less intense.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2023

You talk about Vietnam, and there was this whole history of post-traumatic stress syndrome, and I think that’s what we’re seeing now.

From "Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago" by LeAlan Jones