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Smithers Center at Columbia University Irving Medical Center provides evidence-based care to individuals seeking treatment for substance use disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions.
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Ryan Lawrence, MD, director of the Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program, discusses what individuals can expect during an ER visit.
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Young people’s mental health has risen to the top of educators' concerns. School-based mental health programs can help.
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Columbia researchers have found that exposure to too much dopamine during mid-adolescent causes changes in the brain that lead to aggressive and impulsive behaviors during adulthood.
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Washington PostSeptember 8, 2019“There’s a social dimension to health that we’ve completely overlooked in our scramble to find the best and most cutting-edge medical care,” writes Dr. Kelli Harding in her new book The Rabbit Effect.
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Dr. Rachel Marsh’s Cognitive Development and Neuroimaging Laboratory studies the mechanisms in the brain that underlie an individual’s ability to self-regulate.
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APA.orgSeptember 1, 2019Dr. Ali Mattu’s new A&E series “The Employables” follows people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and Tourette's syndrome as they search for work.
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West Side SpiritAugust 28, 2019“If a study conducted ten years ago suggested that cannabis was safe, how does one extrapolate those findings for today’s teen?” writes Dr. Ardesheer Talati.
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Wall Street JournalAugust 28, 2019“We have big problems of undertreatment and people who may be on these medications longer than they need to be,” Dr. Mark Olfson says.
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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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New York PostAugust 24, 2019Positive relationships lower stress, cortisol, inflammation, pain and blood pressure writes Dr. Kelli Harding.
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U.S. NewsAugust 23, 2019"I am a big believer (that), psychologically, it is important people not be entirely isolated with their HIV diagnosis, and they are not living entirely alone with it," Dr. Robert H. Remien says.
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- August 23, 2019
The New York State Psychiatric Institute has been awarded one of 12 grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to form the Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN).
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RomperAugust 21, 2019Imitation "can be understood as an important way in which children are beginning to make sense of their environments and learn new, important, and necessary behaviors," said Dr. Colleen Cullen.
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