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Coronavirus Updates from Columbia Psychiatry
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HuffPost“Uncertainty and unreliability — not having the security of knowing what happens yet — has been traumatizing at a core level, from the very beginning,” said Dr. Maureen O’Reilly-Landy.
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Psychology Today"I never imagined that I would be attempting to calm my patients’ fears in the midst of a global pandemic during my first two years as a faculty psychologist," writes Dr. Courtney DeAngelis.
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"We’ve known for a long time that there’s a link between viral infections and mental health," said Dr. Maura Boldrini.
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MedscapeDecember 15, 2020"It's easy to criticize the DSM, but at this point, it represents a system that is as good as we can have, given our current state of knowledge." says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman.
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MedscapeDecember 15, 2020"[Buprenorphine] is a tremendously powerful medication, saves many lives and prevents overdose, but there is a risk of misuse and diversion, albeit pretty low," says Dr. Francis Levin.
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Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Sexual and Gender Minority SIGDecember 13, 2020"The pressure to avoid isolation, rejection, and disapproval from their community is common for those who hold intersecting queer and Arab identities," write Drs. Kareen M. Matouk and Melina Wald.
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60 MinutesDecember 13, 2020Dr. Paul Appelbaum, who oversees changes to psychiatry's main diagnostic manual, says excited delirium is bad science, based on faulty studies that grew out of the 1980s cocaine epidemic.
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Psychiatric TimesDecember 11, 2020“Our findings open the door for the development of treatments to target specific symptoms of psychosis depending on an individual subject’s symptom profile," says Guillermo Horga, MD, PhD
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New York TimesDecember 10, 2020Hospitals try to come up with ethical triage frameworks, but Dr. Robert Klitzman said there are often workarounds for V.I.P.s.
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STAT NewsDecember 9, 2020Lack of contact and comfort from other people can slow the acceptance of the reality and meaning of a loss, and keep the intensity of grief “profound and at center stage,” Dr. Katherine Shear said.
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StatDecember 8, 2020"The number one goal of health tech, unlike other tech, is not to engage and immerse patients in their phones but to support and embolden them in their real lives," writes Dr. Ravi Shah.
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A non-exhaustive list of therapeutic approaches
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Washington PostDecember 6, 2020Among those on high doses of steroid medications, "between 5 and 18 percent experience significant “mental status changes,” as we call them," writes Dr. Sally Satel.
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