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Medpage TodayDr. Jeffrey Lieberman and co-authors hypothesized that combining the xanomeline with trospium could lessen xanomeline's typical side effects in treating schizophrenia.
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The Horga Lab is a psychiatry research lab that uses neuroimaging and cognitive methods to study the origins of the psychotic symptoms of schizophrenia, including hallucinations and delusions.
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Columbia researchers have published their first report on mass shootings from the Columbia Mass Murder Database (CMMD).
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Psychiatric Times“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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- April 15, 2019
Columbia Psychiatrists suggest that researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and the FDA reconsider placebo-controlled, relapse prevention studies in schizophrenia.
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JAMAApril 10, 2019Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman and colleagues conclude that the time has come to cease the use of placebo in relapse prevention studies and encourage the use of active comparators.
- April 4, 2019
Dr. Christine Ann Denny’s laboratory is interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying learning and memory.
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- March 21, 2019
A new study from Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute offers insight into the development of delusions, which could lead to better treatments for people with psychosis.
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MD ALERTFebruary 28, 2019"I expect that clinicians will change their practices by prescribing fewer benzodiazepines and more antidepressants for people with schizophrenia," Dr. T. Scott Stroup said.
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HealioFebruary 21, 2019“The effectiveness of combinations of antipsychotic medications remains unclear; reviews of this treatment strategy agree on the need for further investigation,” Dr. T. Scott Stroup and team wrote.
- February 20, 2019
Patients with schizophrenia are often treated with more than one type of psychiatric medication, but a new study suggests that some combinations may be more effective than others.
- February 19, 2019
Researchers have developed a practical and accurate self-report screener for detecting early psychosis and enabling early treatment.
- January 25, 2019
Researchers at Columbia have developed a “Cascade of Care” model for treating individuals with opioid use disorder based on lessons learned in the HIV/AIDS field.
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US News & World ReportJanuary 10, 2019Dr. Terry Goldberg sounded some notes of caution regarding a study that questions whether certain cholesterol, blood pressure and diabetes drugs could help manage mental illnesses like schizophrenia.
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