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Corrie Painter, associate director of operations and scientific outreach at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ and one of the creators of The Metastatic Breast Cancer Project, and Eliezer Van Allen, an oncologist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an associate member at Ó³»­´«Ã½, discuss patient engagement, which is critical for advancing our understanding of both common and rare cancers and empowering people to get in the driver's seat of clinical research.

Hysteria, nostalgia, homesickness, railroad spine, shell shock, battle fatigue—posttraumatic stress disorder has been with us for as long as recorded history. Today, PTSD is one of our most common psychiatric disorders—affecting an in the U.S. alone. And yet, despite its prevalence, little is known about the biological roots of this debilitating condition.