Health & Medicine

A study demonstrates how the Internet is changing the way our brains work

Researchers at the College of Dental Medicine have found that dentists can play a significant role in fighting a major public-health crisis

Researchers have discovered a new way to create embryonic stem cells that contain a sick person’s unique DNA

A study has uncovered alternative causes of the disease

A new book by Carl Schoonover '11GSAS explores how philosophers and neuroscientists have represented that most mysterious of human workings

Albert Ellis’s unruly papers

Columbia psychologist Sheena Iyengar applies her expertise in human decision making to the most difficult question of all

Women soon may be able to better protect themselves using a gel created by epidemiology professors Salim S. Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Columbia social workers are pulling back the curtain on AIDS in Central Asia, where the epidemic is spreading faster than anywhere else in the world

Epidemiologist Sandro Galea discovers that altered genes may trigger post-traumatic stress

The causes of autism are multiple and mysterious, but Columbia scientists say the disorder's secrets will soon be revealed

A study suggests that some people with depression suffer because a structural abnormality in the brain prevents them from interpreting social cues from other people