Dr. Sam Tsemberis discusses the involuntary commitment laws and how they balance the rights of people with mental illness and protection of the public.
"Gambling is classified as an addiction just like any other, like alcohol or drugs," said director of the Columbia University Gambling Disorders Clinic Dr. Mayumi Okuda Benavides.
Research does prove that taking care of your overall brain health helps improve your brain function and memory says Dr. D.P. Devanand, director of geriatric psychiatry at Columbia.
Dr. Anne Marie Albano says some of her patients assume their problems were specific to high school. However, “if anxiety was there,” she says, “nothing changes with a high school diploma.”
CPI serves as a key resource to OMH by spreading those practices identified by OMH as most critical to accomplish OMH’s system-transformation initiatives.
