We spoke to Patrice Malone, MD, about her work with individuals struggling with psychiatric and substance use disorders, as well as her role as a director of the June Jackson Christmas Program.
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.
This 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.
“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.
“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.
"Oxytocin changes social behavior, changes attention to a face, changes your desire to be near another person or interact with another person," Dr. Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele says.
Clinicians evaluating adolescents and young adults who have engaged in self-harm should carefully assess them for a history of other forms of violence, noted Dr. Mark Olfson.
Recently, our government has drastically diminished experts’ abilities to advise policy and has called into question its need to fund science research... Dr. Abigail Kalmbach weighs in.
“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.