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The attacks of November 13, 2015, spurred research into post-traumatic stress disorder. Ten years later, we have a better understanding of the mechanisms that lead victims to relive this nightmare, as well as therapies that promote resilience.
A minute of silence in memory of the victims of the La Belle Équipe café-restaurant in Paris, three days after the attacks which, on November 13, 2015, in Saint-Denis and in the capital, left 131 dead and more than 400 injured.
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This article is from the magazine Les Dossiers de Sciences et Avenir n°223 dated October/December 2025.
"Sometimes all it takes is a sound, an image or another evocative stimulus for some traumatized people to relive the shock they suffered in their bodies. For example, for them to be seized by the same tremors that they experienced that evening at the Bataclan, says Jacques Dayan, child psychiatrist and scientific co-director of the 13-Novembre research program.
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