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“Our evidence of a negative result is really reassuring,” said lead author Dani Dumitriu, MD, PhD, a newborn hospitalist specialist and assistant professor of pediatrics (in psychiatry) at Columbia.

Jeremy M. Veenstra-Weele, MD, explained that some repetitive behaviors are enjoyable or soothing in ASD, and others may represent a habit or be used to make life more predictable.

Ragy Girgis, MD, associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia, said only a small minority of mass shooters are taking therapeutic doses of these medications at the time of the shootings.

Cannabis addiction can cause a dramatic decrease in quality of life, said Christina Brezing, MD, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia.