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Health & Medicine

Sleeping too Little (or too Much) Linked to Faster Aging, and Other Science News

The latest findings from Columbia researchers

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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

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The Pollution Inside Your Home

Columbia researchers measured the air in and around New York City apartment buildings. What they found surprised them

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Dentists Join Fight Against Diabetes

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

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A Step Toward Stem-Cell Therapy

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

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New Pathways for Treating Alzheimer’s

A study has uncovered alternative causes of the disease

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Beauty and Brains

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

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Health & Medicine

Grouped Therapy

Albert Ellis’s unruly papers

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Health & Medicine

Grave Decisions

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

Salim S. Abdool Karim and Quarraisha Abdool Karim
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New Gel Reduces Women’s Risk of HIV

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

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Health & Medicine

Surveyors on the New Silk Road

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

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Health & Medicine

Wired for Trauma

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

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Health & Medicine

Autism, Unmasked

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

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Getting to the Bottom of Depression

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

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Health & Medicine

Can We Talk About Overpopulation?

As numbers soar, scholars revisit a thorny debate

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