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.
“People can become overly focused on numbers, which may exacerbate unhealthy behaviours, like food restriction or compulsively exercising,” says Dr. Deborah Glasofer.
"We found that older people have similar ability to make thousands of hippocampal new neurons from progenitor cells as younger people do," said Dr. Maura Boldrini.
Dr. Ilana Nossel is the medical director and co-associate director of OnTrackNY and an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC).
Dr. Katherine Shear said that in and of itself, grief is natural and healthy after a loss, but struggling with the difficulty or inability to adapt to the loss can be unhealthy.
"What's really important for people with OCD is that they know that they have an illness and the thoughts that they're having are not their own wishes," says Dr. Helen Blair Simpson.
"Sublimation is not just about acting on feelings – that can often be dangerous. It’s about turning what could be a destructive force into something productive," writes Dr. Deborah Cabaniss.
Dr. Madelyn Gould explains, “The detailed coverage of terrorist attacks may be giving people who are vulnerable or thinking along these line ideas about what to do and how to do it.”
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman says that flat affect is just one behavioral symptom that occurs in a constellation of features of different illnesses, and they aren’t all psychiatric.
Dr. Mayumi Okuka shares information on Columbia's Chapman Perelman Domestic Violence Initiative, a program designed to help victims of abuse get the help and resources they need in this video.