When Anthony Bourdain killed himself, Dr. Madelyn Gould said, “I was sad for him and for all the people who were going to hear about it, and I am also sad for people who might be influenced by it.”
“We need a lot more data to know what [marijuana] is useful for,” says Dr. Diana Martinez. “We need a lot of placebo-controlled studies. We need to know what it works for and what it’s useful for.”
New York–Presbyterian University Hospital–Columbia and Cornell, New York City, was ranked number 3 this year in US News and World Report's annual rankings of Best Hospitals for Psychiatry.
“We’re seeing these increases in the strength of cannabis and an emergence of new types of products,” such as edibles, tinctures, vape pens, sublingual sprays, and concentrates,” says Dr. Ziva Cooper.
The Columbia Gender Identity Program provides compassionate, personalized, and expert care to children, adolescents, adults, and families across the gender and sexuality spectrum.
Dr. Alan Brown cautions that although there seems to be a link between autism and DDT exposure, the overall risk of having a child with the disorder is low—even among women with high DDT levels.
"Although we can’t prove it is a cause, we are working to learn more about how such environmental risks may be altering brain development and possibly increasing autism risk,” said Dr. Alan Brown.
