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On June 3, James E. Rothman, Ph.D., the Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences and chair of the medical school’s Department of Cell Biology, was named a recipient of the 2010 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience. The biennial $1 million award, which has become one of the most prestigious in science, was established in 2008 by a partnership of the Norwegian Association of Science and Letters, the U.S.-based Kavli Foundation, and the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research.

Rothman is one...

Described in Homer’s Iliad and called by a succession of names ever since—from mere “exhaustion” to “shell shock” and “battle fatigue”—the distinctive condition that often afflicts soldiers after stressful wartime experiences, now known as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), still carries a strong social stigma. And scientists still have much to learn about its psychological and physiological underpinnings.

Though...