Taking time off from drinking provides an opportunity to reexamine your relationship with alcohol and take note of areas in which drinking may be negatively impacting your life.
A Columbia study found health care workers, including registered nurses, health technicians, and health care support workers, are at increased risk of suicide compared with workers in other fields.
A study from researchers at Columbia, Yale, and Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles found stress from racial discrimination and bias appears to be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy.
The best way to support women’s mental health is to implement policies that improve access to health care systems, family leave, food security, and housing, Dr. Elizabeth Fitelson said.
"Humans evolved with the neurocircuitry to see another person as special," writes Amir Levine, MD, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia.
“Increasingly, the microbiome is being implicated in mental health concerns,” says Drew Ramsey, MD, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia.
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.
Dr. Robert Klitzman writes that federal and state governments should establish legal protection for physicians to receive mental treatment without it being admissible in malpractice litigation.
While insomnia can be a symptom of psychiatric disorders, sleep problems can also contribute to the onset and worsening of problems such as depression, anxiety, and even suicidal ideation.