Dry January is a growing trend in which people abstain from alcohol for the month. Aimee Chiligiris, PsyD, a clinical psychologist specializing in substance use disorders discussed the trend.
Brian A. Fallon, MD, MPH, director of Columbia’s Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center, said that up to 40% of patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) also have depression.
Dr. Michael Stone, a Columbia psychiatrist who devoted his career to understanding and defining the personality traits that constitute evil, passed away recently at 90.
Zachary Blumkin, PsyD, senior clinical director of the psychiatry faculty practice organization, praised the intent behind the program but questioned the effectiveness of so little therapy time.
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.
