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<blockquote data-quote="Spata" data-source="post: 2512959" data-attributes="member: 1455"><p>Large numbers of inner-city youths suffer from a condition known as hood disease, a form of post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from persistent exposure to trauma, according to research cited by KPIX 5.</p><p></p><p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 30 percent of U.S. inner-city youths are affected by the disorder, which makes it difficult for them to learn, the news site says. Those who exhibit the disorder often live in virtual war zones, the CDC report says.</p><p></p><p>And so significant is the condition that doctors at Harvard recently named it hood disease, a term for a more complex form of PTSD, the news site reports. And since the youths rarely escape their communitiesunlike soldiers who eventually leave a war zonethey are repeatedly exposed to trauma.</p><p></p><p>You could take anyone who is experiencing the symptoms of PTSD, and the things that we are currently emphasizing in school will fall off their radar, San Francisco State University associate professor Jeff Duncan-Andrade told KPIX 5. Because, frankly, [schoolwork] does not matter in our biology if we dont survive the walk home.</p><p></p><p>Gun violence represents just part of the problem.</p><p><a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/05/inner_city_youth_suffer_from_hood_disease_also_known_as_ptsd.html?wpisrc=mostpopular" target="_blank">http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/05/inner_city_youth_suffer_from_hood_disease_also_known_as_ptsd.html?wpisrc=mostpopular</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spata, post: 2512959, member: 1455"] Large numbers of inner-city youths suffer from a condition known as hood disease, a form of post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from persistent exposure to trauma, according to research cited by KPIX 5. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 30 percent of U.S. inner-city youths are affected by the disorder, which makes it difficult for them to learn, the news site says. Those who exhibit the disorder often live in virtual war zones, the CDC report says. And so significant is the condition that doctors at Harvard recently named it hood disease, a term for a more complex form of PTSD, the news site reports. And since the youths rarely escape their communitiesunlike soldiers who eventually leave a war zonethey are repeatedly exposed to trauma. You could take anyone who is experiencing the symptoms of PTSD, and the things that we are currently emphasizing in school will fall off their radar, San Francisco State University associate professor Jeff Duncan-Andrade told KPIX 5. Because, frankly, [schoolwork] does not matter in our biology if we dont survive the walk home. Gun violence represents just part of the problem. [url]http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/05/inner_city_youth_suffer_from_hood_disease_also_known_as_ptsd.html?wpisrc=mostpopular[/url] [/QUOTE]
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