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In the News Archive
November 13
WTVG-TV (Ohio), : Teen Suicide On April 26, 2004, Daun Sidle’’s 16-year-old son Derek came home from baseball practice at BG high school and committed suicide. She said, "He put tobacco in his mouth and went to practice, thinking he wouldn’’t get in trouble. The coach caught him and said ’’Get out of here. We’’ll deal with this tomorrow’’."...
Dr. Bill Donnelly is with the Children’’s Resource Center in Wood County. "We have a group working on protocols for schools to use for how school staff at any level, from bus driver through a teacher through a guidance counselor can identify youth who are in need of some further assessment."
The Children’’s Resource Center also won a grant to run Columbia University Teen Screen at BG high school, a computerized questionnaire that screens kids for depression. Donnelly says that "50-90 % of suicides are thought to be associated with depression or some sort of mental illness."
July 14
, , , New England Psychologist : Is bipolar disorder among children on the rise?
September 29
Toledo Blade, : Teenage Suicide is Devastating to Those Left Behind Columbia U Teen Screen Program Assesses Mental Health
September 22
: Columbia University Medical Center Researchers Say Blood Test to Detect Alzheimer's Risk is Close
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September 12
: NYS Psychiatric Institute/Columbia Researchers Target Opioid Abuse Researchers at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI)/Columbia are investigating a novel therapy that may have potential in treating opioid abuse.
September 10
: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation More Effective For Depression in Those with Less Medication Resistance
: Vascular Depression is Subtype of Late-Life Depression According to New Study Researchers at Columbia and the NYS Psychiatric Institute and colleagues are the first to show that vascular depression represents a unique subtype ...
September 9
: NIMH Funds New Studies to Improve Upon Psychotherapy; Barbara Stanley of Columbia and NYS Psychiatric Inst. to Receive Funding
August 25
Los Angeles Times, : When religion and healthcare collide by Dr. Richard Sloan Almost every state in the nation has legislation permitting healthcare professionals -- from physicians to nurses to pharmacists -- to deny patients legal medical treatments that they may find religiously objectionable.
August 15
, The Vancouver Sun : Happiness can ripen with age, study finds If the Rolling Stones couldn’’t get no satisfaction in their youth, new research suggests they might have a better shot now that they qualify for the seniors’ discount...CUMC expert and lead author Karen Siedlecki, a post-doctoral research fellow says "It’’s encouraging, especially when you think about older Canadians,".
August 12
Los Angeles Times, : Medication increasingly replaces psychotherapy, study finds Wider use of antidepressants and other prescription medications has reduced the role of psychotherapy, once the defining characteristic of psychiatric care, according to an analysis published today. The percentage of patients who received psychotherapy fell to 28.9% in 2004-05 from 44.4% in 1996-97, the report in Archives of General Psychiatry said. Researchers attributed the shift to insurance reimbursement policies that favor short medication visits compared with longer psychotherapy sessions, and to the introduction of a new generation of psychotropic medications with fewer side effects. … Dr. Mark Olfson of Columbia University Medical Center, a study author, said patient attitudes might also be hastening the shift. Taking a pill may look a lot easier to patients than psychotherapy, which is more time-consuming and may involve the regular participation of family members.
July 14
, Medical News Today, : American Academy Of Child And Adolescent Psychiatry Discusses Antiepileptic Medications’’
, MedPage Today, : Electromagnetic Treatments for Depression Seek to Improve on ECT
, , Science Daily, : Pregnancy Alone Is Not Associated With Increased Risk For Mental Disorders
, Science Daily, : Violence Declines With Medication Use In Some With Schizophrenia
, : Divergent Fates of the Medical Humanities in Psychiatry and Internal Medicine: Should Psychiatry be Rehumanized?
, Financial Times, : SOUTH AFRICA 2008: HIV/AIDS infection among the world’’s highest
, NARSAD, : Study Links Trauma From Assaults to Bipolar Disorder
, WebMD, : Watchdog Group Asks for Food Dye Ban
, : Spontaneous Mutations Rife In Nonfamilial Schizophrenia
, United Press International, : New genetic changes found in schizophrenia
, MSNBC.com, : The mystery of medications linked to suicide
, ScienCentral, : Magnetic Brain Boost
, KGMB-TV (CBS affiliate), : Drug Addiction: A Click Away?
, , Commentary by Susan Essock, Am Journal of Psyc: Cost-Effectiveness of Depression Treatment for Adolescents
, Gloucester Daily Times, : The challenges of youth mental health
, Baltimore Sun, : Medical Magnetism
, : Columbia University Begins Search For Causes Of Autism International Effort Considered Groundbreaking
, : Two Columbia University Medical Center & New York State Psychiatric Institute Psychiatrists Receive Prestigious “Distinguished Investigator” Awards from NARSAD
, : Should Congress enact mental health parity?
, : PRO / CON
Should Congress enact mental health parity?
, : Depression in families
, , Advance Magazine, : "The best dose to reduce ADHD symptoms varied substantially among the children, but the average across the whole group was as low as 14 mg per day,"
, US News and World Report, : Quitting Smoking More Difficult for Blacks, Hispanics: Study
, New York Times, : LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Anxiety and Me
, London Times, : ‘Suicide rating’ could be given to every new drug licensed in UK
, Philadelphia Daily News, : Tarnished View of Wonder Drugs
, , : Making Sense of the Great Suicide Debate
, The Herald (UK), : Taking lives seriously
, BBC, : Unravelling the suicide clusters
, San Francisco Chronicle, : Psychiatrist Studies Wounded Healers
, Reuters, : Effect of antidepressant warnings moderate-US study
, CBC Canada, : Depressed heart attack patients at higher risk of death
, : Anti-alcohol drug could fight bulimia
, : Brought on by Darkness, Disorder Needs Light -
How does winter, and the lack of sunlight, affect you?
, ABC News, : Losing Virginity Later Linked to Sexual Problems
, Boston Globe, : New life inside the depressed brain;
Neuron growth may be key to mood disorder treatments, studies find
, Columbia Record, : Faculty Q & A: Robert Klitzman
, Blog of National Book Critics, : For his new book, "When Doctors Become Patients," Robert Klitzman interviewed over 50 physicians who had gotten sick with serious disease to understand how the experience changed them.
, : Preventing teen suicide by identifying the illness early
, : Measure To Raise Bar On Drinking; Iowa College Town Split Over Ordinance Aimed At Students
, : Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the Young
, Associated Press, : Misdiagnosed? Bipolar Diagnoses Up; Experts Question It
, The Bulletin, : Wild at heart
September 19
Indianapolis Star, : Parents, don’’t be remote; control your kids’’ TV viewing Sensible, loving parents don’’t let their kids play in traffic. Responsible parents don’’t feed their kids a bowl of M&Ms each evening and call it supper. When it comes to parental oversight of kids’’ television habits, however, too many parents fail to see the harm in excessive screen time. Given what is known about television’’s effects on kids, this mismanagement amounts to soft child abuse...Recent research at Columbia University indicates that teens who watch three or more hours of TV per day develop a higher risk for learning problems.
September 4
NY Times, : Bipolar Illness Soars as a Diagnosis for the Young The senior author of the study, Dr. Mark Olfson of the New York State Psychiatric Institute at the Columbia University Medical Center, said, “I have been studying trends in mental health services for some time, and this finding really stands out as one of the most striking increases in this short a time.”
Washington Post, : Bipolar Disorder Rise In Kids, Teens Doubted
The study’’s lead author, Mark Olfson of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, said the results likely reflect overdiagnosis now or underdiagnosis in the past, rather than a true increase.
September 10
: Troubled kids' ailments tough to diagnose
The sharp increase in kids' office visits for bipolar disorder, which causes extremes of mania and depression and raises the risk of suicide, surprised some medical experts. It also reignited debate over whether more affected children are being helped earlier in the disease or too quickly prescribed potentially harmful medication when they may suffer from a different but related condition.
"Given the preponderance of boys, their young age and the number of them also being diagnosed and treated for ADHD, all of these things are consistent with some misdiagnosis," said Dr. Mark Olfson, senior author of the report and professor of clinical psychiatry at New York State Psychiatric Institute of Columbia University in New York.
September 5
Daily Mail, : Being depressed can hinder recovery from a heart attack and raises the risk of having another one, say researchers. Dr Alexander Glassman of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, led the study of 290 depressed patients who had survived a heart attack.
August 27
: Researchers Identify Brain Network That May Help Prevent Or Slow Alzheimer's Columbia University Medical Center researchers have identified a brain network within the frontal lobe that is associated with cognitive reserve, the process that allows individuals to maintain function despite brain function decline due to aging or Alzheimer’s disease. The study was led by principal investigator Yaakov Stern, Ph.D., a professor at the Taub Institute for the Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Division of the Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center at Columbia University Medical Center. It is published in the current issue of Cerebral Cortex.
August 1
: Kids treated for attention deficit get better in a few years Most children treated for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder — whether with medication, therapy or both — improve greatly within a few years, according to a three-year study out today.
They're still more likely than the average child to break laws and take drugs by early adolescence, a link that was suggested in earlier research. But those who get into trouble tend to be children with other mental disorders, not just ADHD, says lead author Peter Jensen, director of the Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health at Columbia University.
July 13
: Two Large Studies Show Decline In Suicide Attempts With Antidepressant Treatment Patients with depression treated in two independent health care systems experienced overall drops in suicide attempts between the month prior to starting treatment with antidepressant medications and the month after treatment began.
The second study, involving veterans, is described in "The Relationship Between Antidepressants and Suicide: Results of Analysis of the Veterans Health Administration Datasets," by Robert Gibbons, Ph.D., Kwan Hur, Ph.D., J. John Mann, M.D., and colleagues at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. The findings are based on 226,866 veterans diagnosed with depression during 2003-2004.
New York Times: President Bush has nominated Dr. James W. Holsinger Jr., a Kentucky cardiologist, to be surgeon general. Today he is to go before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Here are 15 questions the committee members might want to ask.OP-ED: Faith in Medicine By RICHARD P. SLOAN
According to a recent report in The New England Journal of Medicine, more than 40 million Americans are cared for by doctors who believe that their religious convictions supersede their obligation to provide patients with legal treatments. Are doctors’ primary obligations to their patients or their religious convictions?
RICHARD P. SLOAN, a professor at Columbia University Medical Center and the author of “Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine.”
July 10
Washington Post: FINDINGS: Nearly One-Third in U.S. Have Abused Alcohol Nearly one-third of Americans abuse or become dependent on alcohol at some time in their lives, and most never seek treatment, according to a new study.
"Alcohol dependence was significantly more prevalent among men, whites, Native Americans, younger and unmarried adults and those with lower incomes," Deborah S. Hasin of Columbia University Medical Center [and the New York State Psychiatric Institute] and colleagues wrote.
June 19
Reuters: More body fat means better recovery for anorexics In a study of anorexic women who had regained their normal weight, those with the most body fat relative to their total weight were the least likely to relapse, Dr. Laurel E. S. Mayer and colleagues found.
"These data suggest that restoring body fat to normal levels may be integral to recovery," Mayer, of Columbia University [and the New York State Psychiatric Institute]in New York City, and her team write in the June issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
May 24
Washington Post: LETTER TO THE EDITOR - Re: “Combat Zone," [May 15]
Legitimate debate exists as to whether persistent symptoms are due to persistent infection, a post-infectious process, or both. In 2001, the New England Journal of Medicine published an article documenting persistent "severe impairment" after treatment among patients with well-documented Lyme disease. In 2003, Neurology published an article documenting that repeated antibiotic treatment results in clinically meaningful improvement three times more often than placebo.
Acknowledgment of this uncertainty would diminish polarization and advance the interests of both scientists and patients.
Brian A. Fallon, MD
Director, Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center
Columbia University
May 8
Associated Press: Study: Cut teen TV time Teenagers who watch television for three or more hours per day may have a higher risk of attention and learning difficulties in their adolescent and early adult years, a medical journal reported.
Jeffrey G. Johnson, a researcher with Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons* and colleagues [found that] "television viewing
time at age 14 years was associated with elevated risk for subsequent frequent attention difficulties, frequent failure to complete homework assignments, frequent boredom at school, failure to complete high school, poor grades, negative attitudes about school, overall academic failure in secondary school and failure to obtain post-secondary education."
May 15
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER: Living Well: Tune in to your children's TV habits May is not shaping up as a highlight month for anyone in the business of getting kids to watch television. On the heels of TV Turnoff Week in late April, two new and notable studies about the downside of children's
viewing habits were published last week in peer- reviewed pediatrics journals.
One study, from researcher Jeffrey Johnson at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, reported that teens who watch three or more hours of TV daily are at significantly higher risk for developing attention and learning problems. Importantly, Johnson made it clear that it didn't work in reverse, that teens with learning problems simply watch more television.
Washington Post: Combat Zone As the incidence of Lyme disease has grown nationwide -- roughly 23,300 cases were recorded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2005, up from about 17,000 in 2001 -- so has the political clout of Lyme activist groups, building on some people's frustration with standard treatments and the belief that many diffuse ailments, from arthritis and headaches to irritability and poor concentration, are actually symptoms of lingering, active Lyme disease. The activists have attacked legislation on state and federal levels, protested outside doctors' offices and lined up powerful allies. Last month they opened the Lyme Disease Research Center at Columbia University, made possible by $3 million the groups raised.
ST. CLOUD TIMES: Our View: Mental health care needs to be addressed Not surprisingly, improving Minnesota's approach to mental health care and coverage isn't drawing the same legislative buzz as smoking bans or tax increases. But that doesn't minimize this important issue, nor
should it squelch the good ideas legislators and the governor have debated so far.
When it comes to political buzz, the one mental health proposal that's drawn the most attention this session is creation of a screening program for children to help identify early in life potential mental health
issues. Most often cited as an example of what proponents want is the program commonly known as TeenScreen. Created by Columbia University, it offers a voluntary screening for children that's run through public schools.
April 3
New York Times: Many Diagnoses of Depression May Be Misguided, Study Says About one in four people who appear to be depressed are in fact struggling with the normal mental fallout from a recent emotional blow, like a ruptured marriage, the loss of a job or the collapse of an investment, a new study suggests. To avoid unnecessary diagnoses and stigma, the standard definition of depression should be redrawn to specifically exclude such cases, the authors argue... His co-authors were Mark F. Schmitz of Temple University, Allan V. Horwitz of Rutgers University, and Dr. Michael B. First, a psychiatrist at Columbia who edited the current version of the psychiatric association’s diagnostic manual.
April 5
The Scientist: Growing a New Antidepressant René Hen sits in his corner office on the seventh floor of the New York State Psychiatric Institute in upper Manhattan. Leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, Hen remembers that he didn't want to invest too much time in Santarelli's neurogenesis project, and says that his hesitation was warranted. "When you think of classic hippocampal functions, you think [of] learning and memory," says Hen. "You wouldn't have thought changes in the hippocampus could change mood."
March 17
: Should Congress enact mental health parity?
The cause of mental health parity -- equal insurance coverage for mental health care --
is far too important to wait for the results of November's elections.
Never before have so many members of Congress -- on both sides of the aisle -- called for mental health parity. We mustn't let the chance for achieving full mental health parity slip away.
February 2
New York Times: A Free-for-All on Science and Religion ...After enduring two days of talks in which the Templeton Foundation came under the gun as smudging the line between science and faith, Charles L. Harper Jr., its senior vice president, lashed back, denouncing what he called “pop conflict books” like Dr. Dawkins’s “God Delusion,” as
“commercialized ideological scientism” — promoting for profit the philosophy that science has a monopoly on truth.
That brought an angry rejoinder from Richard P. Sloan, a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, who said his
own book, “Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine,” was written to counter “garbage research” financed by Templeton on, for example, the healing effects of prayer.
Bloomberg News: New Schizophrenia Drugs No Better Than Older, Cheaper Generics Newer antipsychotic medications used to treat
schizophrenia are no more effective than the older drugs they have largely replaced though they cost 10 to 20 times more, according to a large new U.S. government-funded study.
"The assumption was these medications would have superior efficacy, greater safety and ultimately result in better long- term outcomes," said study co-author Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of Columbia University''s psychiatry department. "The presumption when the public is paying $10 billion a year is that it is worth it."
Healthday: Scientists Get Closer to Depression''''s DNA ... new findings from a team of U.S. researchers.
"We should be able to hone more finely into the gene," said Myrna Weissman, co-author of one of the papers and a professor of psychiatry and epidemiology at Columbia University and head of clinical and genetic epidemiology at New York State Psychiatric Institute, both in New York City. "Then, we can see mutations and develop treatments," she said.
Reuters: Children and preadolescents who show signs of depression may turn to alcohol sooner rather than later, researchers report. All the more reason, they say, to catch and treat early-life depression.
"Little is known about the impact of depression on the onset of alcohol use in adolescents," *Dr. Ping Wu from Columbia University*, New York,told Reuters Health.
"The finding that early life depressive symptoms may lead to earlier onset of alcohol use has important clinical and policy implications," *Wu* told Reuters Health, "because studies have shown that people who had early onset of alcohol use were much more likely to develop alcohol abuse/dependence later in their lives."
Therefore, "it is important to identify and treat depression in preadolescent children," *Wu *emphasized.
January 23
San Francisco Chronicle: Parents reflect, schools mobilize to curb suicide After a teen suicide, family and friends often are left wondering if there were signs they missed, whether they should have seen it coming. Indeed, there are signs, but they can be subtle and difficult to spot -- especially for parents and friends who don''''t know what to look for, or who don''''t want to admit that a child is depressed.
Schools are seeking new ways to deal directly with the threat of suicide. Three private schools in San Francisco, including St. Ignatius, are trying a program called TeenScreen developed at Columbia University to identify students in trouble. The program includes a questionnaire for ninth-graders about whether they have been depressed, have a problem with alcohol and drugs or have tried to kill themselves.
January 19
New York Times: Study Detects a Gene Linked to Alzheimer’s
A variant gene involved in Alzheimer’s disease has been detected through study of Dominican families living in Manhattan, scientists are reporting today. The families have about three times the usual incidence of Alzheimer’s, a finding that led Dr. Richard Mayeux of Columbia University in 1994 to start looking for anything in their environment that could be touching off the disease. Finding nothing, Dr. Mayeux decided to search for a genetic cause, a task that seemed worth trying
because the Dominican Republic, where the families came from, is a single, long-isolated population in which variant genes are easier to detect.
January 4
Scientific American: Human, Sea Slug Brains Share Genes for Alzheimer''''s and Parkinson''''s The ancestors of humans and sea slugs diverged more than a half billion years ago, but scientists have now unexpectedly found genes that are remarkably similar in the brains of both. These findings could help shed light on the evolution of the brain in the animal kingdom and the mechanisms of human disorders such as Alzheimer''s disease.
The small numbers and large sizes of brain cells in sea slugs make the animals ideal for brain research. Indeed, neuroscientist Eric Kandel of Columbia University [and the New York State Psychiatric Institute] shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for research in the snails that shed light on how memories form.
October 30
Los Angeles Times: Truth is, it's best if they know
Truth sometimes hurts. But for children closing in on adolescence, a firm grasp on the truth about one's standing with classmates and peers can be healthy, even when it does hurt a bit.
Those initiatives, including a model program designed at Columbia University called TeenScreen, aim to steer kids who are more likely to develop depression toward help before their emotional difficulties lead them to risky behaviors, academic failure or suicide attempts. In recent years, six states — Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Iowa and New Mexico — have moved to adopt programs that screen schoolchildren for warning signs of mental illness, including depression.
October 26
New York Sun: War and Peace
Over the past decade a plethora of books have been written on the relationship of science and religion. "Blind Faith" by Richard P. Sloan, a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University, is critical of attempts to mix religion and medicine, most notably highly publicized studies on prayer and healing.
October 23
WebMD Medical News: Ritalin for Preschoolers? Study Shows Drug Provides "Moderate" Help for Preschool Kids with ADHD
Ritalin has a "moderate" effect on preschool kids with moderate-to-severe attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), finds a National Institute of Mental Health study.
"We found that a carefully diagnosed and carefully selected sample of 3- to 5-year-old children with ADHD can benefit from Ritalin," Laurence Greenhill, MD, tells WebMD. "But because young children are more sensitive to Ritalin side effects, we found a need for close monitoring of any young child taking this medication." Greenhill, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University and director of pediatric psychopharmacology at New York State Psychiatric Institute, led the NIMH-funded study.
October 30
Washington Post: In Antipsychotics, Newer Isn''t Better
psychiatric drugs compared with newer and far costlier medications, according to a study published yesterday that overturns conventional wisdom about antipsychotic drugs, which cost the United States $10 billion a year.
"The claims of superiority for the [newer drugs] were greatly exaggerated," wrote Columbia University psychiatrist Jeffrey Lieberman. "This may have been encouraged by an overly expectant community of clinicians and patients eager to believe in the power of new medications. At the same time, the aggressive marketing of these drugs may have contributed to this enhanced perception of their effectiveness in the absence of empirical information."
August 18
New York Times: Review of Landmark Study Finds Fewer Vietnam Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress
Far fewer Vietnam veterans suffered from post-traumatic stress as a result of their wartime service than previously thought, researchers are reporting today, in a finding that could have lasting consequences for the understanding of combat stress, as well as for the estimates of the mental health fallout from the Iraq war.
“I’d like to think that this study would help settle the debate, and that both sides would see that this was good science,” said the report’s lead author, Dr. Bruce Dohrenwend, a psychiatric researcher at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. “It’s true we found a significant reduction in the lifetime prevalence of these disorders,” Dr. Dohrenwend said, “but on the other hand we also found that more than 9 percent had current pathology, which is a substantial number of people,” or about a quarter-million of the Americans deployed in Vietnam.
July 5
Reuters: Psychiatric Problems Common in Children and
Teens With HIV An evaluation of a group of young people
with perinatally acquired HIV infection shows that more than half have psychiatric disorders, mostly "in the anxiety and behavioral domains." Dr. Claude Mellins, the lead investigator of the study said the results "indicate that these youth are at high risk for mental health problems... that typically warrant mental health interventions."
June 20
New York Times: In Medicine, Acceptable Risk Is in the Eye of the Beholder The author of a new study on weighing a treatment''s risks versus its benefits said "People hate the risk of bringing bad things on themselves, but a sense of responsibility makes them overcome these instincts to think about what''s best for others." What role does the physician play? "Physicians who place emphasis on informed consent have mistakenly come to see this as a process in which they play only a neutral role and not the role of someone who gives advice as well...," said Dr. Paul Appelbaum.
June 14
US News & World Report: Drug Approved to Prevent Seasonal Affective Disorder
Longtime sufferers of seasonal depression may now have a way to stop the winter blues before they start. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)announced Monday that it has approved the prescription medication Wellbutrin XL to prevent major depressive episodes caused by seasonal
affective disorder….
"That is an enormously high placebo rate," says Dr. Michael Terman,director of the Center for Light Treatment and Biological Rhythms at Columbia University Medical Center. Terman, who worked on the Columbia
University arm of the multicenter trial, points out that a number of effective medications can be used to lift the depression once it hits.
New York Times (Log-in required): Study Sees No Gain in Using Antidepressant to Treat Anorexia...One of the most widely used treatments for the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, the antidepressant Prozac, works no better than dummy pills in preventing recurrence... researchers are reporting today. Study led by Dr. Timothy Walsh
May 3
New York Times (Log-in required): Medical Attention, Therapy and Addiction Drugs Are Found to Help Heavy Drinkers..."This is a beautiful study, in terms of the way it was designed and executed, in that it gives us a good look at how well a variety of treatments work," said Dr. Edward Nunes, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia, who was not involved in the research.
May 7
New York Times (Log-in required): Between Addiction and Abstinence... "The fact is that these moderate measures are becoming more and more accepted in judging treatments," said Dr. Edward Nunes, a professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University.
April 23
Los Angeles Daily News: Understanding teen suicide... Dr. Shaffer explains the risks and what you can do.
New York Times (Log-in required): Research Ties Lack of Sleep to Risk for Hypertension.. "While many factors contribute to high blood pressure, lack of sleep appears to be an independent cause," according to Dr. Dolores Malaspina...
Bloomberg.com: Nobel Prize Winner Kandel Speaks of Brain, Snails, Memory Pill... From his office at a Columbia University research lab, Nobel Prize laureate Eric R. Kandel looks out over the Hudson River and a neatly arrayed collection of photographs of family and friends...
March 31
New York Times (Log-in required): Long-Awaited Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer..."The problem with studying religion scientifically is that you do violence to the phenomenon by reducing it to basic elements that can be quantified, and that makes for bad science and bad religion," said Dr. Richard Sloan, a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia...
March 23
News Week: The Therapist as Scientist... Long before the Oedipus complex, Sigmund Freud was a hard-core scientist. "He was very prescient about how mental processes could work," says Dr. Eric Kandel of Columbia University. "He developed the notion that the neuron is the element of the brain and that contacts between neurons can be modified by learning."
March 24
Washington Post: Researchers Look at Prayer and Healing...
Conclusions and Premises Debated as Big Study''''''''s Release Nears...
March 20
NewsDay.com: Columbia receives record $200 million for neuroscience center... Columbia University has received a record-setting $200 million gift that the school will use to establish a research center to study brain function...
February 25
Salt Lake Tribune: Legislature should look to science, not science fiction...the so-called "Ritalin bill" was reintroduced recently in the state Legislature....The bill in question, HB299, could discourage teachers from communicating with parents about observations that suggest a student has ADHD...
February 12
The New York Times (Log-in required): Thinning the Milk Does Not Mean Thinning the Child.. No one knows why children got fatter, says Dr. Rudolph Leibel, an obesity researcher at Columbia University. It is clear, of course, that they must be eating more or exercising less, but the difference may be tiny...
February 10
Baltimore Sun: Great expectations: Research explains placebo effect Columbia University researcher Tor Wager has used brain scans to map where in the brain the placebo response occurs...
February 9
Miami Herald: Girls doing more drugs. the use of alcohol and prescription drugs is rising, said Joseph Califano, chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University...
New York Times (Log-in required): Depression in Pregnancy Poses Treatment Challenge
United Press International: The Age of Autism: New test of gold salts A Columbia University scientist plans to test whether gold salts improve the functioning of "autistic mice"
February 2
The New York Times (Log-in required): Exploring Mental Illness and Battling Her Own
February 9
United Press International: Scientists explore effects of emotions Researchers say people who have negative emotions without knowing their source often allow the emotions to affect decisions on unrelated issues.
February 2
Forbes Magazine: Study Looks at Hispanic Hypertension 'Race Gap'
September 17
: New research has uncovered a biological link between anger and the risk of heart disease A screaming match may be heartbreaking in more ways than one. New research shows that high levels of hostility, anger and depression can predict a higher risk of heart disease in men. The study, published in the August issue of the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, is one of many linking hostility and heart health... Making the mind-body connection with anger is more difficult than it was with depression, say some researchers, because the medical community lacks a standardised definition of hostility. "Different authors have suggested different definitions," says Julie Schulman, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University Medical Center, New York. "There are quite a number of different tests. There are many questionnaires that don't necessarily agree with each other or mean the same thing."
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