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Your Chatbot Is a Terrible Therapist. Here’s Why.
Columbia clinicians are studying how ChatGPT and other AI tools may reinforce harmful beliefs and endanger vulnerable users
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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals
Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair
How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever
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How Columbia psychiatry professor Robert Spitzer got homosexuality removed from the DSM’s list of mental disorders
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Don’t Mess With These Neurons!
Scientists find "aggressive" part of the hippocampus
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Let's Talk About Sex
A study finds that high-school students who are taught to communicate with their peers about sex are less likely to be sexually assaulted in college
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The Climbing Neuroscientist
Why brain science and bouldering have more in common than you think
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Meet Hal: He's One Sick Robot
At Columbia’s School of Nursing, a medical simulation center exposes students to the emotional and practical challenges of patient care
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Radical Solutions for Baldness
Geneticist Angela Christiano’s research not only offers hope to those suffering from hair loss, it could point the way to new cancer therapies
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More Crop per Drop
Farmers in India could ameliorate water shortage and malnutrition by switching from rice to other grains
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New Flight Routes Save Time but Damage Health
A study by Columbia researchers concludes that the benefits of reduced flight times are outweighed by the effects on residents below
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New Smart Helmet Could Spot Concussions in Real Time
Columbia researchers are developing what would be the first wearable diagnostic device for traumatic brain injury
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The Science of Healthy Aging
Gerontologist Linda P. Fried shares the secrets to living a longer, healthier, and happier life
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Bullet Points: Reflections from the Front Lines of the Gun-Violence Epidemic
Jennifer Mascia ’07JRN provides an insider look at the emotional toll of her chosen career
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Landscaping to Save Lives
Columbia researchers have discovered a surprisingly simple way to reduce urban gun violence
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A Career in Caring
LeanOnWe, founded by Ron Gold '91BUS, increases access to home health care