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Columbia-led clinical trial addresses important barrier to opioid use disorder treatment.
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Ryan Lawrence, MD, director of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, discusses what individuals can expect during an ER visit.
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Columbia-led study hold promise for helping people find therapies that work.
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Studies indicate that 29% to 46% of patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder show partial or no response to treatments.
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- March 8, 2018
The ‘Man O’ War’ program, a research project studying the effectiveness of horse therapy for veterans with PTSD, will be now fully managed by Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
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- February 22, 2018
A new Columbia University study suggests that smoking cannabis may lower the amount of prescription opioids needed to produce pain relief.
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THE FIXJanuary 3, 2018“A lot of people are doing it, but there’s not a lot of research on it,” Dr. Prudence Fisher says of equine therapy.
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- December 14, 2017
Ketamine was significantly more effective than a commonly used sedative in reducing suicidal thoughts in depressed patients, according to researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC).
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Medical XpressNovember 29, 2017"These results enable us to determine whether potential treatments will be effective against patients' symptoms by testing them first in healthy volunteers," said Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman.
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THE WEEK MAGAZINENovember 14, 2017Drs. Yuval Neria and Prudence Fisher are examining equine therapy's efficacy. They hope to define a specific standardized equine treatment program for people who have PTSD.
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MedscapeOctober 30, 2017Ecstasy "needs to be looked at in a very careful and rigorously controlled way to accrue evidence showing what it can do and what its potential liability is," says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman.
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- February 8, 2017
Study in mice shows drug’s potential to prevent PTSD in soldiers and others likely to experience psychological trauma.
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MedscapeFebruary 3, 2017Results from the first-ever randomized controlled clinical trial to test a dietary intervention as a treatment for clinical depression.
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New ScientistJanuary 18, 2017While some people may benefit from sharing their experiences, others risk experiencing more trauma by recalling them, says Dr. Elias Dakwar, Columbia University’s Division on Substance Abuse.
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