“We found that people who inject drugs comprise a bigger percentage of the deaths from infective endocarditis, compared to 20 years ago,” said senior researcher Dr. Polydoros Kampaktsis.
Dr. David Hellerstein, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, said the question comes in many iterations but boils down to: Do antidepressants work?
Dr. David Hellerstein, a co-author and Columbia University research psychiatrist, said those side effects are not surprising given the intensity of the psychedelic experience from the drug.
Katherine Keyes, a professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, said the study painted a stark picture of the problem. “Where the science needs to go,” she said, “is what do we do about it?”
Megan Sykes, director of the Columbia Center for Translational Immunology in New York, said the EKG data illustrate that there are differences that may only emerge after doing transplants into humans.
“I think everyone had hoped that a BA.5-based boost would enhance that [immune] response. But that’s not what we saw,” said David D. Ho, who led one of the studies.
The study's lead author, Dr. Jennifer Manly, a professor of neuropsychology at Columbia University, joins CBS News to discuss the racial and economic disparities in dementia diagnoses and research.
Studies show it affects about 1 percent of the population, said Dr. Paul S. Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, though “many of those people may have quite mild cases.”
Editor's Note: Jan Claassen, a co-author of this article, is an associate professor in the Department of Neurology at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
