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We spoke to Dr. Marisa Spann about her work in early childhood psychiatry, her new role in the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and having honest, direct conversations about race.
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In November 2021, Columbia Psychiatry stepped up as a leader in this field and named Elizabeth Ford, MD, to the newly created position of Director of Mental Health and Criminal Justice Initiatives.
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The Center for Practice Innovations is New York’s secret asset quietly helping to make the state’s 38,000 public sector behavioral health workforce among the best trained in the country.
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Opening remarks were delivered by Dr. Blair Simpson, interim chair of psychiatry at Columbia.
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- May 15, 2017
The brain’s mu opioid receptors are responsible for the depression-relieving effects of an antidepressant called tianeptine, reports a new study.
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- May 12, 2017
An international group of experts has concluded that, for patients with schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, antipsychotic medications do not have negative long-term effects.
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UPIMay 11, 2017"The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the majority of patients with schizophrenia benefit from antipsychotic treatment, says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman.
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New York TimesMay 10, 2017Research has shown that “someone else’s death by suicide can reinforce a vulnerable person’s motivation to die by suicide,” said Dr. Madelyn Gould.
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Charlie RoseApril 28, 2017This discussion is on the under-recognized and often crippling effects anxiety can have on young people and what NewYork-Presbyterian Youth Anxiety Center is doing about it.
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- April 28, 2017
Columbia scientists have identified a gene that allows neurons that release serotonin to evenly spread their branches throughout the brain
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Wall Street JournalApril 28, 2017“Murphy has been the most outspoken critic—rightly so—of SAMHSA, and Ellie quit SAMHSA for much of the same reasons. There’s something here that doesn’t add up,” said Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman.
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DANA FOUNDATIONApril 28, 2017“Ketamine, as a treatment, is often paired with the experience or during consolidation of memories or some type of arousal related to the experience,” said Dr. Christine Denny.
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US News & World ReportApril 28, 2017"The best way to get an accurate diagnosis and, more important, to get treatment, is to find a mental health professional you feel a good fit with,"
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New York MagazineApril 28, 2017“It’s a drug that seems to act at a wide range of brain sites so in terms of anxiety, one of its potential mechanisms could be acting at one of the serotonin receptors," said Dr. Margaret Haney.
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