At Columbia Cohen Center for Health and Recovery from Tick-borne diseases, Kristen Kendrick takes the time to assess the patient from multiple perspectives.
Belinda Busogi discovered her research calling in a program that pairs Columbia psychiatry researchers with historically underrepresented racial or ethic groups.
Growing legislative attempts to limit, ban, or criminalize access to this critical model of medical care endangers the health and well-being of transgender and nonbinary youth.
While insomnia can be a symptom of psychiatric disorders, sleep problems can also contribute to the onset and worsening of problems such as depression, anxiety, and even suicidal ideation.
Jeff Cohen, assistant professor of medical psychology (in psychiatry) at Columbia, discusses digital mental health and the ways it can increase access to mental health care.
“Ketamine is a medical treatment intended to address a significant illness,” such as severe depression or suicidal ideation, said Joshua Berman, assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia.
“We depend on our memory to record, to learn and to recall, and we depend on forgetting to countervail, to sculpt and to squelch our memories,” writes Columbia Psychiatry's
Scott Small.
Columbia Psychiatry's Christine Denny says that the next frontiers are at the molecular level, where genes influencing the encoding and retrieval of different aspects of memories are at work.
Dr. Aaron Slan, a fourth-year psychiatry resident at Columbia University describes a patients who was acting like someone who had a schizophrenia spectrum illness, but turned out to have COVID-19.