“Ketamine is a medical treatment intended to address a significant illness,” such as severe depression or suicidal ideation, said Joshua Berman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia.
“We depend on our memory to record, to learn and to recall, and we depend on forgetting to countervail, to sculpt and to squelch our memories,” writes Columbia Psychiatry's
Scott Small.
Columbia Psychiatry's Christine Denny says that the next frontiers are at the molecular level, where genes influencing the encoding and retrieval of different aspects of memories are at work.
Dr. Aaron Slan, a fourth-year psychiatry resident at Columbia University describes a patients who was acting like someone who had a schizophrenia spectrum illness, but turned out to have COVID-19.
New Community Mental Health Project videos are part of an initiative to reduce distress and trauma in communities that face lack of access and cultural barriers to behavioral health care.
A Columbia psychiatrist’s groundbreaking book returns to the best-seller list 11 years after publication as attachment theory gains popularity on social media.
Psychiatrist Carl Fisher discusses his book, The Urge: Our History of Addiction, which interweaves socio-cultural narratives with his experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery.
