"We found that older people have similar ability to make thousands of hippocampal new neurons from progenitor cells as younger people do," said Dr. Maura Boldrini.
Dr. Ilana Nossel is the medical director and co-associate director of OnTrackNY and an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC).
Dr. Katherine Shear said that in and of itself, grief is natural and healthy after a loss, but struggling with the difficulty or inability to adapt to the loss can be unhealthy.
“We know new organisms are being discovered every one or two years ... in ticks,” said Dr. Brian Fallon. “This is a time of continuous discovery in terms of what’s going on with tick-borne diseases.”
"What's really important for people with OCD is that they know that they have an illness and the thoughts that they're having are not their own wishes," says Dr. Helen Blair Simpson.
"Sublimation is not just about acting on feelings – that can often be dangerous. It’s about turning what could be a destructive force into something productive," writes Dr. Deborah Cabaniss.
Dr. Madelyn Gould explains, “The detailed coverage of terrorist attacks may be giving people who are vulnerable or thinking along these line ideas about what to do and how to do it.”
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman says that flat affect is just one behavioral symptom that occurs in a constellation of features of different illnesses, and they aren’t all psychiatric.
Dr. Mayumi Okuka shares information on Columbia's Chapman Perelman Domestic Violence Initiative, a program designed to help victims of abuse get the help and resources they need in this video.
