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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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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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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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Open MindsApril 28, 2017“Getting to measures that matter for improving patient care without creating unnecessary administrative burdens is a balancing act," noted Dr. Harold Pincus.
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USA TodayApril 28, 2017“If you increase the prevalence of users, you are going to increase the prevalence of people who have adverse consequences,” said lead author Dr. Deborah Hasin.
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- April 28, 2017
Research shows that that both illicit cannabis use and cannabis use disorders increased significantly in those states that had passed medical marijuana laws...
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