Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Rep. Mike Lawler (NY-17) have introduced the Community Mental Wellness Worker Training Act to increase the availability of mental health services to the underserved.
In honor of Pride Month, the Columbia Gender & Sexuality Program (CGSP) offers a family-friendly guide to support LGBTQIA+ youth and caregivers and to events taking place across the city.
A study led by Matisyahu Shulman, MD, found that rapid administration of extended-release naltrexone was effective compared with the standard procedure used in the treatment of opioid use disorder.
"This treatment brings in the parents, finally, and focuses on the ways parents need [to stop] taking over, to break the cycle of anxiety in kids," said Dr. Anne Marie Albano.
“There seems to be a general liability factor, which is genetically transmitted, to having a variety of different psychiatric and neurological disorders,” says Dr. Alan Brown.
Dr. Randy Auerbach spoke with BBC World Service about a clinical trial in which his team of researchers are monitoring adolescents at risk of suicide through their smartphones (forward to 43:26).
Go Medical, in collaboration with Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, initiated the evaluation of the safety and pharmacokinetics of the OLANI for opioid use disorder.
“It seems that there is some evidence that nitrates and their downstream products have profound effects on the same pathways that are implicated in bipolar disorder,” Writes Dr. Drew Ramsey.
“For my money, bowing is the way to go. Graceful, respectful, it communicates so much without the slightest physical contact,” writes Dr. Deborah Cabaniss after spending some time in Japan.