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20 Years of Modeling the Brain
Larry Abbott, Ken Miller, and Daphna Shohamy at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute
Health & Medicine

20 Years of Modeling the Brain

At Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, scientists have spent the past two decades using computational models to predict neural behavior

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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals
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Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair

Clearing the Path to Parenthood
Illustration by Sophi Gullbrants of a couple looking at an embryo

Clearing the Path to Parenthood

Physicians are racing to find new treatments for infertility and recurrent miscarriages. But how far can they push the biology of reproduction?

How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever
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How a Cocaine-Addicted Surgeon Changed Medicine Forever

How William Stewart Halsted became the father of modern surgery.

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What Do Memories Look Like?
Scan of neurons in the hippocampus
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What Do Memories Look Like?

Columbia neuroscientists have figured out how to visually map memory formation

 

Shaping the Future of Public Health
Illustration by Lu Zhang of public health being uplifted by researchers
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Shaping the Future of Public Health

At 100, Columbia’s Mailman School prepares to address some major societal challenges

The Mental Weight of COVID-19
Illustration by Rose Wong of people trying to hold up a giant weight
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The Mental Weight of COVID-19

Columbia psychologists and psychiatrists prepare for a tsunami of mental-health issues caused by the collective trauma of the pandemic

Smog’s Threat to the Brain
Gérard Dubois illustration of a person with a cloud as a head
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Smog’s Threat to the Brain

Our brains may be even more vulnerable to air pollution than previously thought

The Complex Legacies of Lyme Disease
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The Complex Legacies of Lyme Disease

A new clinic at Columbia specializes in treating patients with long-haul symptoms

Going Grey? Relax. Those Silver Strands Could Disappear
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Going Grey? Relax. Those Silver Strands Could Disappear

The greying process is kickstarted by stress hormones — and it may even be reversible

A New Way of Looking at Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee photographed by Allison Michael Orenstein
Health & Medicine

A New Way of Looking at Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee wrote the book on cancer. Can he transform the way it’s treated?

The Nurse Practitioner Who Wants to Bring Concierge Health Care to All
Columbia nurse practitioner Rakiyah Jones
Health & Medicine

The Nurse Practitioner Who Wants to Bring Concierge Health Care to All

Rakiyah Jones ’19NRS is expanding access one patient at a time

A Columbia Startup Finds a Way to Clean Up
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A Columbia Startup Finds a Way to Clean Up

Kinnos, a biotech company, has a simple but effective new disinfection tool for the pandemic era and beyond

“Get the Shot!” Urges Rap Star
Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run DMC
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“Get the Shot!” Urges Rap Star

Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of Run-DMC is appearing in a new series of educational music videos launched by Hip Hop Public Health

Psychiatrists to Study How College Students’ Lives are Shaped by COVID-19
A college student holding books and wearing a face mask
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Psychiatrists to Study How College Students’ Lives are Shaped by COVID-19

The pandemic has turned everybody’s lives upside down, and students have made profound sacrifices

New Program Will Research Brain Longevity
Sami Sagol, center, with Zuckerman Institute director Rui Costa (left) and codirector Eric Kandel
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New Program Will Research Brain Longevity

Introducing the the Sagol Brain Longevity Program at Columbia’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute

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