"The problem of mass shootings is not due to mental illness: it's a function of inflammatory rhetoric, easy access to weapons, and a failure of political leadership," Dr. Paul Appelbaum tweeted.
Dr. Michael Stone said mass shooters are likelier to act in response to perceived slights and insults, quietly accumulated over time, until such grievances manifest themselves in violence.
Drs. Edward Nunes and Frances Levin will be leading the Columbia site in a 3-site multisite trial to test a new model of treatment for opioid addiction.
“This has been described in the literature going back to the Civil War,” Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman said. “It was called ‘Soldier's Heart’ because one of the features of PTSD was a rapid heartbeat.
Your therapist does not necessarily need to be someone who has a lot in common with you, or with whom you would want to be friends," Dr. Colleen Cullen advises.
Formal medical school curricula often espouse the value of equity, yet the hidden curriculum unfortunately sometimes conveys discrimination and unfair treatment, says Dr. Michael Devlin.
"Both genetic mechanisms and their psychosocial impacts are more complex than imagined by geneticists or bioethicists at the dawn of the Human Genome Project,” write Dr. Paul Appelbaum and colleague.
