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Columbia's psychiatric medicine curricululum has a dual mission to help grow the psychiatry workforce and increase literacy across all specialties.
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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.
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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.
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Language barriers often prevent Spanish-speaking individuals from receiving necessary mental health care.
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SCIENCE MAGAZINEAugust 23, 2019Scientists have already found several brain features that align with suicide risk. The best studied comes from neuroscientist Dr. John Mann.
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MedscapeAugust 23, 2019Drs. Drew Ramsey and Deborah Glasofer present an update on eating disorders.
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U.S. NewsAugust 23, 2019"I am a big believer (that), psychologically, it is important people not be entirely isolated with their HIV diagnosis, and they are not living entirely alone with it," Dr. Robert H. Remien says.
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- August 23, 2019
The New York State Psychiatric Institute has been awarded one of 12 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to form the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN).
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SCIENCE MAGAZINEAugust 22, 2019"You're not going to solve a lifetime of problems on a phone call," Dr. Madelyn Gould says. A next step is harnessing that call to chart a path to long-term care.
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scienceAugust 21, 2019"It's not a fact-finding mission, like we're kind of blindly throwing a spear," Dr. Randy Auerbach says. Instead, MAPS relies on established theories and data on suicidal behavior.
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RomperAugust 21, 2019Imitation "can be understood as an important way in which children are beginning to make sense of their environments and learn new, important, and necessary behaviors," said Dr. Colleen Cullen.
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Consumer ReportsAugust 20, 2019“We know that the good bacteria in your gut produces a lot of neurotransmitters implicated in mood, like norepinephrine and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA),” says Dr. Drew Ramsey.
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PBSAugust 20, 2019Dr. Jeff Lieberman added that while all countries deal with mentally ill populations, few of them have access to guns like those in the U.S. does.
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- August 15, 2019
The Columbia University Department of Psychiatry announced today that Linda Rosenberg, MSW, will be joining the department as Director of External Relations beginning September 2019.
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