Can Exercise Improve My Mental Health?
Exercise is great for your body—and your mind. When you engage in any physical activity, your brain releases “feel-good” chemicals (dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphins) that boost your mood. In addition, forming long-term exercise habits can reduce your risk...
Clinical Neuroscience Fellow Looks Into the Brain to Improve OCD Treatments
“What drives people to keep having certain thoughts and engaging in certain behaviors, well past the point when it is adaptive?” That is the question underlying the research of Andrew H. Smith, MD, PhD, a clinical neuroscience fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine at...
Mount Sinai Researcher Launches Three Studies of Alzheimer’s Disease in Asian Americans
Clara Li, PhD, a clinical neuropsychologist and Associate Professor, Psychiatry, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has received new grants that will total more than $12 million from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes...
The Days Are Getting Shorter, Here’s Why You May Be Feeling Down
Mariana Figueiro, PhD, Director of the Light and Health Research Center, explains seasonal affective disorder and how those who experience it can manage.
Mount Sinai Researchers Publish First Genome-Wide Analysis of Binge Eating Disorder
Binge eating disorder is the most common eating disorder in the United States, thought to affect as many as 3 percent of people during their lifetimes. Yet it remains poorly understood. Now, researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have made...
New Study Explores Links Between Women’s Reproductive System and Mental Health Disorders
Both psychiatric disorders and disorders of the reproductive system are common in women of reproductive age. Often, they co-occur. “There is a lot of overlap between these two disease classes—but very little research into why that is,” says Nina Zaks, MS, Clinical...