Nuri Gene Cos is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Director of the Traumatic Stress Service, The Maudsley Hospital, London, where she specialises in neuropsychiatry and individual therapy work for people with stress disorders (including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). She has a special interest in developmental trauma, violence, accident and war and works with victims who have brain injuries as well as psychological conditions. Her doctoral research focused on the psychophysiology in anxiety disorders and she has published several papers in relation to neuropsychiatric issues, bilingualism in relation to psychiatric symptomatology and PTSD.