Anxiety & Stress Disorders

Resilience is a relatively neglected topic of research, but it has the power to dramatically improve patients' lives.

How should the sociopolitical nature of PTSD as a diagnosis inform our understanding of trauma?

A new combination of subjective and objective measures might finally provide a reliable answer.

Research confirms COVID-19’s negative impact on Americans’ mental health.

During National Men’s Health Month, take time to consider the unique mental health needs of male patients.

A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that mind-altering drugs, combined with psychotherapy, are effective treatments for some of the most stubborn psychiatric disorders.

The latest trial results for MDMA-assisted therapy are in—and they are eye-catching.

New research find altered states of consciousness may allow veterans and other patients with PTSD to face unspeakable experiences and find peace.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians were thrust into unfamiliar roles, where they sometimes had to make life and death decisions. Here are a few of their stories.

In this conversation, a former APA president discusses mystical and meditative experiences, reconciling psychoanalysis and neuroscience, and tensions surrounding the medical model.

A television drama looks at eating disorders from the patient, physician, and family perspectives. What does it get right—and wrong?

Running, walking, and other forms of exercise create some specific chemical changes in the body—which may end up benefitting the mind.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder and related conditions do not always respond to first-line treatments. Fortunately, new options are on the horizon.

A lawyer discusses how the legal system treats (and mistreats) those with mental illnesses.

Opening certain potassium channels in the brain reduces depressive symptoms and anhedonia.

Some mood episodes are more anxiety-provoking than others, and at the top of the list are mixed states.

Patients who are report social phobia are unlikely to speak out for themselves. For them, confrontations with their boss or coworkers are even worse than water-cooler conversations. That is where psychiatrists can help.

Research on psilocybin, LSD, and other hallucinogens as psychiatric treatments are in their renaissance, transitioning from banned and illegal to potentially useful in changing life for the better in some patients. More in this podcast.

A discussion with professor of medical psychology and director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders.

Cannabis use has prompted symptoms such as dizziness, sleepiness, and fatigue in older patients. Are there any benevolent effects?

In approximately half of patients with Huntington disease, symptoms of depression, irritability/aggression, executive dysfunction, psychosis, cognitive decline, and dementia present long before progressive motor symptoms.

Millions of Americans have a skewed view of their own bodies, leading to serious depression and suicidality.

If depression impairs the brain’s processes at a molecular level, would the same be true of stress more generally?

"Talking about it will only make it worse..."

While psychotropic medications for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychiatric disorders can cause weight gain, patients can take small steps to improve their health.