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Post-traumatic stress disorder and COVID-19 Volume 12, supplément 1, Avril-Mai-Juin 2020

Auteur
Professor Sorbonne University
Chairman of the CNRS Ethics Committee (COMETS)
ACASA team, LIP6, B.C. 169, 4 pl. Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex 05, France
* Correspondence

PTSD Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD in English, or TSPT in French, trouble de stress post-traumatique) affects individuals who have experienced situations endangering their integrity, such as soldiers returning from war zones, former prisoners or deportees, victims of rape, assault or abuse, witnesses of attacks, murders or crimes, etc. This is manifested by unexpected attacks of anxiety, difficulty in focusing attention, sleep disturbances, altered emotions and, above all, the sudden and [...]