The film features Amit Etkin, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. A question-and-answer session will follow the campus screening.
June 4, 2015
Amit Etkin
A new feature-length documentary, Searching for Home: Coming Back from War, will be screened from 6-8 p.m. June 20 in Cubberley Auditorium at the Stanford Graduate School of Education.
The preview is free and open to the public.
Searching for Home explores veterans’ struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, from World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War to modern-day conflicts, chronicling the journey of men and women who face new and difficult challenges after returning home from combat zones.
After the screening, there will be a question-and-answer session with the director, Eric Christiansen; Amit Etkin, MD, PhD, Stanford assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, who is featured in the film and was its scientific adviser; and veterans featured in the film, including Russ Toll, a graduate student in bioengineering at Stanford.
PTSD impacts as many as 20 percent of combat veterans, as well as an untold number of adults and children worldwide who experience traumatic events and environments. Etkin and his Stanford colleagues are working to develop new treatments for the condition.
The event is sponsored by Stanford Medicine Medical Center Development.
Seating is limited, so please register online by June 8 at http://medicalgiving.stanford.edu/events/searching-for-home.html.
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