Clinicians have observed “a marked rise in youth anxiety and depression over the same period of time when social media has become so widely used,” Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD said.
Liliana Valvano, LMSW, an associate in Psychiatric Social Work at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, works with neurodivergent clients, helping them build rich and fulfilling lives.
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD, has spent much of his career working with autistic people. We asked him some common questions about Autism Spectrum Disorder in honor of World Autism Month.
Erin K. Engle, PsyD, discusses some of the signs that the time is right to stop therapy and suggests questions patients should ask themselves before moving on.
Melina Wald, PhD, a clinical psychologist in private practice and cofounder of Columbia’s Gender and Sexuality Program, discusses how the decision to prescribe puberty blockers is made.
Even well-meaning comments about someone’s eating habits can make people with disordered eating feel judged and shamed, says Evelyn Attia, MD, director of the Columbia Center for Eating Disorders.
Psychiatrist and eating disorders researcher Joanna Steinberg receives 100K from Huberman Lab Podcast to further work on brain-based differences linked to the disorder.
Jack Drescher, MD, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University who edited the section about gender dysphoria in the APA’s diagnostic manual, questions the need for such laws.
