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Rwandan genocide survivors provide new insights into resilience and PTSD
Published in Mental Health Weekly Digest, March 8th, 2010
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda resulted in the mass killing of up to one million people over the course of about 100 days. Although the exact death toll is unknown, experts estimate that as much as 20% of the country's entire population was murdered. There can be no doubt or surprise then that some of the survivors developed posttraumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, an anxiety disorder that can develop after witnessing or experiencing a traumatizing event, such as abuse, war, or natural disaster.
However, even under stress as extreme as genocide, not all individuals develop PTSD. Why is it that some do and some don't' A new study published in Biological Psychiatry, by...
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