'Path of mental illness' follows path of war, 20 years after conflict ends
Saturday, July 31, 2010 - 04:14
in Psychology & Sociology
Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health assessed the geographical distribution of the long-term burden of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in a region of Liberia and report that the prevalence of PTSD remains high nearly two decades after the principal conflict there and five years after war in Liberia ended entirely...