This study "highlights the need for rapid diagnosis and rapid identification, as well as the potential importance and value of better means of prevention,” said Brian Fallon, MD.
Katherine Shear, professor of psychiatry at Columbia, said that the escalating number of deaths—and the way people died—made grief more common and more talked about in the mainstream media.
"Having a treatment that could kill bacteria before it comes into your body would be a great advantage," said Brian Fallon, director of the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia.
Forty-two years after its introduction, "the DSM revolution has run its course," writes Sally Satel, a visiting professor of psychiatry at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Our neurons are endowed with a completely separate set of mechanisms that are dedicated to active forgetting, says Scott A. Small, a professor of neurology and psychiatry at Columbia.
In the 2022 U.S. News & World Report survey of best graduate and professional schools, Columbia Psychiatry’s medical education program earned the No. 2 ranking nationwide.
Melina Wald, director of the Gender Identity Program at Columbia, says that waiting to transition can create additional psychological distress for a child.
The pandemic has underscored how important even casual connections are for emotional well-being, said Anne Marie Albano, director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders.
Katherine Keyes, director of Columbia’s Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program, testified at an ongoing trial against three major pharmaceutical companies regarding the opioid epidemic.
