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Study finds adults with mild cognitive decline assigned puzzles showed less brain shrinkage, better daily functioning.
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Columbia Psychiatry News spoke with Dr. Scott Small about the science of memory and how we can get better at letting stuff go.
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Scientific American“It’s pretty clear that the hair encodes part of your biological history in some way,” Dr. Martin Picard says.
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A new study has found that performing well on two brief tests measuring cognitive ability and ability to identify odors indicates very low risk for Alzheimer’s.
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MANHATTAN TIMESJune 5, 2019Dr. Kathleen M. Pike highlights Dementia Reimagined, a book that can help us understand the complex interplay of biology and environment in putting us at risk for dementia.
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- May 15, 2019
Optimizing Outcomes of Treatment-Resistant Depression in Older Adults (OPTIMUM) is the largest study ever done on late-life depression. OPTIMUM’s New York site is located at NYSPI/Columbia.
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- August 1, 2018
A clinical trial conducted by Columbia University and Duke University suggest that donepezil may not improve cognitive performance in people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease who also had depression.
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- November 10, 2017
Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute may have discovered a way to use a patient’s sense of smell to treat Alzheimer’s disease before it develops.
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- February 24, 2017
“As the ‘silver tsunami’ approaches, substance use disorders in the elderly are expected to more than triple by 2020,” says Dr. Kotbi, Associate Professor of Psychiatry
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- July 2, 2015
Join Us for Community Conversations on Overcoming Stress in NYC - July 23, 2015
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- March 26, 2015
Gray Matters at Columbia Benefit Luncheon - April 29
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- March 26, 2015
"Shrinks, The Untold Story of Psychiatry," by Jeffrey Lieberman, MD
- February 13, 2015
Congress passed the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act of 2014.
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