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Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2005;294:544-546.

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Atlanta—Mass terrorist attacks exact a broader psychiatric toll than previously suspected. They spark symptoms of clinical concern in a substantial proportion of the general population as well as in individuals directly caught up in the events, new research shows.

The findings hold implications for public health planning and rapid response to curb psychiatric fallout, according to speakers at a workshop on managing distress and psychiatric disorder after terrorism at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association held here in May. The session was held in collaboration with the National Institute of Mental Health.

The more visible a terrorist attack, the more likely it will trigger psychiatric symptoms in the general public, said Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH. A medical epidemiologist, Galea is associate director of the New York Academy of Medicine Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies in New York City.

New research shows that mass terrorist attacks . . . [Full Text of this Article]

IMPACT ON GENERAL PUBLIC



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