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Article: MISSILE ATTACKS CAUSED STRESS AND INSOMNIA
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 27, 1996
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A survey of Israeli citizens found that more than a third of them
suffered from insomnia during the 1991 Persian Gulf war because of
the stress from possible missile attacks and about half of these
people continued to have sleep disturbance a month after the war
ended. The study was published in the current issue of the journal
Sleep, the official publication of the American Sleep Disorders
Association.
According to Jean Jacques Askenasy and Isaac Lewin, authors of
the study, it has been generally accepted that post-traumatic stress
disorder stemming from wartime experiences can cause insomnia, but
the phenomenon has only been studied in small groups of Vietnam
veterans whose stress was ...