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In this Q & A, Dr. Lauren Hoffman discusses social anxiety disorder, how virtual reality therapy works, and why VR treatment is a promising option for teens and young adults.
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Findings from the Columbia database help dispel the myth that having a severe psychiatric illness is predictive of who will perpetrate mass murder.
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Her influential ‘gateway hypothesis’ changed the way we think about addiction.
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Serotonin is released in the brain during emotionally intense of events, whether negative or positive.
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The Wall Street JournalMarch 13, 2022Columbia Psychiatry's Sally Satel reviews Thomas Insel’s new book Healing: Our Path From Mental Illness to Mental Health.
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Psychiatry AdvisorMarch 11, 2022Ravi N. Shah, chief innovation officer for Columbia's Department of Psychiatry, discusses the Pathways mobile app.
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The New York TimesMarch 11, 2022“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.
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The New York TimesMarch 9, 2022“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.
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Boston GlobeMarch 8, 2022Columbia 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.
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TIMEMarch 4, 2022Dr. 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.
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- February 16, 2022
New Community Mental Health Project videos are part of an initiative to reduce distress and trauma in communities that face lack of access and cultural barriers to behavioral health care.
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- February 9, 2022
A Columbia psychiatrist’s groundbreaking book returns to the best-seller list 11 years after publication as attachment theory gains popularity on social media.
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- February 3, 2022
A Columbia summer program aims to interest medical students from historically underrepresented groups in becoming psychiatrists.
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- January 26, 2022
Psychiatrist Carl Fisher discusses his book, The Urge: Our History of Addiction, which interweaves socio-cultural narratives with his experience as a clinician, researcher, and alcoholic in recovery.
