Innovations in Psychiatry: New Treatments for Depression
The Department of Psychiatry’s seventh annual symposium took place on Friday, February 8. The speakers covered emerging treatments for depression including ketamine, deep brain stimulation, and personalized treatment. “This symposium was an...
APA 2019: Mount Sinai’s Presentations
This year’s American Psychiatric Association (APA) conference takes place May 18-22 in San Francisco. The schedule of sessions presented by faculty from the Department of Psychiatry is listed below. Veerle Bergink, MD, PhD, will speak on psychiatric illness during and...
NARSAD Awardees
The 2018 NARSAD Young Investigator grantees from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation include four faculty members from the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Their research aims are listed below. ...
CARES: A Unique Program for Teens
For more than three decades, the Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education Service (CARES) at Mount Sinai Morningside has been helping high school students with mental health and/or substance abuse issues turn their lives around. The program integrates...
ACNP: Mount Sinai’s Panels, Study Groups, and Posters
This year’s American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) conference takes place December 9-13 in Hollywood, Florida. Faculty from the Department of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will be contributing via panels, study...
Brains in a Dish: A Promising New Tool for Studying Neurological and Psychiatric Conditions
Lotje De Witte, MD, PhD, is one of the few experts on “mini brains,” or cerebral organoids—stem cells grown into small balls of human brain tissue. This video shows a mini brain in her lab, showing the dividing cells in red. Video courtesy of Dilara Ilhan. Until very...