Higher Risk of Autism Found in Babies Born Prematurely According to a Definitive New Mount Sinai Study
Premature birth is linked to an increased risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in both males and females, with those born earliest carrying the highest risk, according to a large and definitive new study in Pediatrics from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...
Three Simple Ways to Help Lower Your Anxiety
Clinical social worker Rachel Kaplan, LCSW, shares three tools you can use anywhere—without signaling your distress to everyone around you.
Twenty Years Later: A Grim Anniversary as Mount Sinai Remains a Lifeline for 9/11 Responders
On the evening of Tuesday, September 11, 2001—with fires burning at the site of where the twin towers had stood that morning and several thousand people still unaccounted for—a group of physicians from the Mount Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health met to...
My Child Is Anxious About Returning to School In Person. How Can I Help Them?
With the start of the new school year, many kids may be relieved to return to in-person learning. But others may feel more anxious. In fact, experts at the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center anticipate that this transition may be especially challenging and...
Brian Sweis, MD, PhD: A Physician-Scientist’s Approach to Psychiatry
The past few decades have seen a surge in neuroscience breakthroughs, but translating those findings into better outcomes for patients has been slow and, in some cases, non-existent. Neuroscientists who train as clinicians can narrow that interdisciplinary divide....
Should I Tell My Doctor About My Cannabis Use?
Now that New York and many other states around the country have decriminalized medicinal and recreational cannabis, some are interested in partaking. To those people, Yasmin Hurd, PhD, Director of the Addiction Institute of Mount Sinai, advises that marijuana is just...