It became an "official" diagnosis in 1980 when it was defined in the DSM, the psychiatric diagnosis manual used by mental health professionals. Before that, it was called combat neurosis, or shell shock, and was identified as a syndrome around World War I.
The term "post-traumatic stress disorder " was coined by the Canadian psychiatrist Chaim Shatan in the 1970s and appeared in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 3rd edition published in 1980.
The condition in soldiers has been known about for over 2,000 years. Combat stress, battle fatigue and shell shock are just three of the terms used in the twentieth century to describe the condition.
Post Traumatic Stress has been know for fifty years at least. I love sites that let anyone change the information, because then you never know if it's correct or not- isn't that fantastic!
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This link has some interesting info about this. There doesn't see to be a discoverer of PTSD. But many observers.
Somewhere around the 1860's, I believe
It as first discovered by Danish physician Petra Jacobsen. It was discovered through genetic testing of children, thought to have genetic disorders. Its also referred to as 11q terminal deletion disorder
Many believe that WWI is when post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) first was seen.
Phenylketonuria is a genetic disorder that was first discovered in 1934 by Dr. Asbjorn Folling of Norway
Scaly skin has been identified as a medical disorder since the ancient Greeks, but it wasn't until 1841 that Psoriasis was "discovered" and named by Austrian dermatologist Ferdinand von Hebra.
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome was first described in 1964 by Drs. Michael Lesch and William Nyhan. The enzyme deficiency that causes the disorder was discovered in 1967 by a researcher named Seegmiller.
Who was the first to discover panic disorder?? Well, your question is not very clear. Do you mean who is the first person to actually diagnose and give the name 'panic disorder' to this condition? or do you mean who was the first person to actually 'develop' panic disorder?? Panic disorder is when a person has been suffering one month or more from panic attacks, and has been worried about the reoccurance of these attacks. I should think that people have been suffering from this disorder for many years - particuarly stressed people or perfectionists. The term panic disorder is just a follow on from panic attacks. No-one 'discovered' panic attacks or panic disorder. You make it sound like the discovery of a new unfound island or country!
Swiss-type agammaglobulinemia. This was the first type of SCID discovered, in Switzerland in the 1950s. (SCID) is the most serious human immunodeficiency disorder(s).
WAS was named for the two physicians who first reported the disorder. In 1937, Dr. A. Wiskott, a physician working in Munich, described two affected boys
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The first drug to treat bipolar disorder was lithium.
Hemophilia is a disorder that affects the body's ability to coagulate blood properly. Abulcasis first described this disorder in the 10th century, but it wasn't until 1828 when Frederich Hopff first coined the term hemophilia.