Rachel Yehuda: Cause and Effect
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2016
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
To discover why some survivors of trauma experience PTSD and some don't, scientist Rachel Yehuda must convince a community of Holocaust survivors to let her study them. Rachel Yehuda is a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Director of the Mental Health Patient Care Center at the James J. Peters Bronx Veterans Affairs hospital. Her research on PTSD has included both human populations and animal models, neuroendocrinology, and genomic and molecular biological studies of trauma.
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| 0:28.2 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:31.4 | Is NYU scientist the... |
| 0:33.2 | I felt... |
| 0:33.9 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:36.2 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:39.4 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:50.2 | Hi, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, |
| 0:53.2 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:56.5 | This week's story is from Rachel Yehuda. |
| 0:58.3 | It was recorded in May 2016 at the Greenspace in Manhattan as part of a show we produced in partnership with Public Radio's Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson. |
| 1:21.9 | Thank you. During my fifth year of graduate school, I made a decision that would change my life. |
| 1:26.8 | I decided to stop killing rodents. |
| 1:29.1 | I had been studying the effects of stress hormones on brain function |
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