Top Stories
-
Columbia's psychiatric medicine curricululum has a dual mission to help grow the psychiatry workforce and increase literacy across all specialties.
Topic
-
Robert Klitzman, MD, professor of psychiatry, addresses the ethical and health concerns that must be considered in tackling the obesity epidemic and broader public health challenges.
Topic
-
A Columbia study shows a simple smell test and memory exam can predict cognitive decline as accurately as costly brain imaging, offering a more affordable and accessible way to assess dementia.
Topic
-
Language barriers often prevent Spanish-speaking individuals from receiving necessary mental health care.
Topic
Latest News
-
Source:
Los Angeles TimesOctober 10, 2019Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman said he supports keeping guns from many with mental illness, and he believes that laws have made the civil commitment of those with severe mental illness too difficult.
Topic
-
Source:
Medium.comOctober 10, 2019“We have to engage in a healthy way, while also setting some boundaries so it’s not the only thing you’re focusing on,” Dr. Lauren Hoffman said regarding patients discussing anxiety in therapy.
Topic
- October 9, 2019
“If accurate, it’s a shocking deviation from ordinary standards of practice,” said Dr. Steven Hoge referring to the hospital’s failure to evaluate and monitor Masters’ alleged assailant.
Topic
-
Source:
CNNOctober 1, 2019Dr. Herbert Kleber got the Google Doodle treatment Tuesday on the 23rd anniversary of his election to the National Academy of Medicine. Kleber pioneered modern addiction treatment in the US.
Topic
-
Source:
TodaySeptember 26, 2019“Medical care only accounts for 10-20% of our overall health and the other 80-90% is somewhat our genes and what’s happening in the rest of our lives outside clinical care,” said Dr. Kelli Harding.
Topic
-
Source:
VOXSeptember 25, 2019Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman says health care is unlike any other business “it’s the business of life” and treating health care advertising the same as any other industry conflates patients and consumers.
Topic
-
Source:
Refinery 29September 11, 2019Unlike other phobias, such as agoraphobia, trypophobia "is not a major public health problem,” said Dr. Franklin Schneier.
Topic
-
Source:
Washington PostSeptember 8, 2019“There’s a social dimension to health that we’ve completely overlooked in our scramble to find the best and most cutting-edge medical care,” writes Dr. Kelli Harding in her new book The Rabbit Effect.
Topic
- September 4, 2019
Dr. Rachel Marsh’s Cognitive Development and Neuroimaging Laboratory studies the mechanisms in the brain that underlie an individual’s ability to self-regulate.
Topic
-
Source:
APA.orgSeptember 1, 2019Dr. Ali Mattu’s new A&E series “The Employables” follows people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and Tourette's syndrome as they search for work.
Topic
