The emotional toll of the pandemic may reverberate for months – Johns Hopkins News-Letter

Tamar Rodney, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing, discussed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during the pandemic in her lecture Trauma The Wounds You Cannot See on April 6.
Rodney, whose research focuses primarily on improving PTSD diagnosis and treatment, opened the lecture by describing the evolution of trauma. She explained that trauma is induced by a repeated or one-time event that evokes a memory which may be positive, negative or a mix of the two. 
Rodney defined diagnosable…

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