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Psychotherapy use has risen substantially among U.S. adults with mild to moderate distress, but increases are uneven across socioeconomic groups.
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A pilot program from the Department of Psychiatry for Columbia University medical plan participants offers a new approach to helping new parents and pregnant people access mental health care.
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Language barriers often prevent Spanish-speaking individuals from receiving necessary mental health care.
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Columbia's Maja Bergman discuss the types of challenges domestic violence survivors face, effective therapies for those who experience domestic abuse, and warning signs that someone may be an abuser.
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- September 2, 2021
Columbia Nursing's pop-up event on the CUIMC campus trained dozens of volunteers to recognize the signs of opioid overdose and treat it with naloxone.
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- August 30, 2021
Researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons are leading the first U.S. trial of an experimental vaccine designed to treat an opioid use disorder.
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- August 25, 2021
Columbia psychiatrist Sidney Hankerson, MD, in an interview with the Macy Foundation, discusses racism as a driver of health disparities and how he’s working with churches to improve access to care.
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- August 17, 2021
Columbia psychologist Alyssa Ames-Sikora, PhD, offers advice for parents with kids who are anxious about returning to the classroom this fall.
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- August 11, 2021
With the help of brain imaging and a clip from the “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Columbia psychiatrists have discovered a part of the human brain necessary for understanding social interactions.
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- August 11, 2021
A new study found that post-infection, Danish people diagnosed with Lyme disease had a 28% higher rate of mental disorders and were twice as likely to have attempted suicide.
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- August 2, 2021
With the Summer Olympics underway, attention is focused on the pressure young athletes face.
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- June 28, 2021
Columbia research finds that some cases of OCD are caused by damaging gene variants that, while rare, provide a needed starting point for the development of better therapeutics.
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- May 26, 2021
A Columbia study looked at a short and promising approach that could encourage more health workers to get the mental health care they need via a method centered on a three-minute video.
- May 26, 2021
The study by Columbia psychiatrists also finds people with schizophrenia, overall, have a 4.5-fold increased risk of dying from suicide.
