ADVISORY/Photo of Julie Krone and Kathleen Brady MD at the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder roundtable is available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and Business Wire's Web Site.Photo/Business/Health Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) The photo is BW4 on AP PhotoExpress. The photo is on Business Wire's Web Site at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.041200/bw4 Photo caption reads: Julie Krone Julie A. Krone (b. July 24, 1963, Benton Harbor, Michigan), is an American jockey. In 1993, she became the first female jockey to win a Triple Crown race when she captured the Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair. (left), the winningest female jockey in thoroughbred racing and a survivor of posttraumatic stress disorder Posttraumatic stress disorder An anxiety disorder in some individuals who have experienced an event that poses a direct threat to the individual's or another person's life. (PTSD PTSD posttraumatic stress disorder. PTSD abbr. posttraumatic stress disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ) joined Kathleen Brady, MD (right), professor of psychiatry at the University of South Carolina
• • and lead author of an April 12 Journal of the American Association study on the treatment of PTSD, at an event today. Ms. Krone suffered one of the worst falls in racing history in 1993, which led to her development of PTSD. She manages her condition with medication and psychotherapy. PTSD affects 13 million people and twice as many women as men. Approximately 50 percent of the general population are exposed to a traumatic event during the course of a lifetime with 10 to 20 percent developing PTSD. (Business Wire photo) CONTACT: Chandler Chicco Agency, Mary Conway, 212/229-8404 or Judi Kennedy, 212/229-8439. |
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