Trauma Biologist

摘要

Israel Liberzon discovered his natural proclivity for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research when he arrived at the University of Michigan (UM) and Veterans Administration Ann Arbor Medical Center in the 1980s. There, he encountered numerous combat veterans with the condition. "The veterans tended not to like the doctors, who they thought couldn't relate to them. It was always very natural and easy for me to relate to my veteran patients, to understand where they were coming from," says Liberzon. "I didn't have the barriers of communication that other clinicians had because I had the combat experience in common with the patients.".