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Nevada Current“Have you wished you were dead or have you had thoughts about killing yourself? A ‘yes’ warrants further questioning,” says Dr. Kelly Posner. “It’s the first thing that’s actually reduced suicide.”
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Salud con Lupa"Depressed people tend to isolate themselves and I wanted to write a book that explains what it means to them to be supported in such a dark time," says Dr. Andrew Solomon.
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Columbia researchers conducted a systematic review, determining which suicide prevention strategies work, and are scalable to national levels.
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Everyday HealthIt’s not clear yet, based on current data, whether fish oil can work as an antidepressant, says Dr. Philip Muskin.
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QuartzOctober 2, 2019Dr. Michael First, who presided over earlier revisions of the DSM, sees a suicide-specific diagnosis as an “appealing idea.”
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- September 4, 2019
Dr. Blake Zakarin discusses the relationship between sleep, mental health, and suicide in adolescents and steps we can all take to improve the quality of our sleep.
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InsiderAugust 26, 2019While there is still plenty of research to be done, Dr. Philip Muskin emphasized that there is enough certainty to know that psychiatric drugs do work – often to great effect.
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SCIENCE MAGAZINEAugust 23, 2019Scientists have already found several brain features that align with suicide risk. The best studied comes from neuroscientist Dr. John Mann.
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MedscapeJune 20, 2019Dr. Elizabeth Fitelson discusses what we can expect from brexanolone, a drug developed specifically to counteract unique physiologic changes that can induce postpartum depression in vulnerable women.
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MedscapeJune 20, 2019Dr. Elizabeth Fitelson discusses perinatal depression.
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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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US News & World ReportApril 4, 2019Prescription medication may be enormously helpful, but "just taking a pill is usually not enough" to effectively cope with depression, says Dr. Diana Samuel.
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Wall Street JournalApril 1, 2019“Part of the problem that we’re faced within the field is that we really need to become better at identifying the factors that lead to the escalation of suicide risk,” says Dr. Randy Auerbach,
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New York TimesMarch 24, 2019Dr. Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber has developed a protocol of questions that anyone — not just medical professionals — can ask to identify people who may be at risk of suicide.
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