Los Angeles Daily News :
April 23, 2006
Understanding teen suicide... Dr. Shaffer explains the risks and what you can do.
New York Times (Log-in required) :
April 23, 2006
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 :
April 23, 2006
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...
New York Times (Log-in required) :
March 31, 2006
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...
News Week :
March 23, 2006
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."
Washington Post :
March 24, 2006
Researchers Look at Prayer and Healing...
Conclusions and Premises Debated as Big Study''''''''s Release Nears...
NewsDay.com :
March 20, 2006
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...
New York Times :
February 2, 2007
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 :
February 2, 2007
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."
Salt Lake Tribune :
February 25, 2006
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...
