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What Happens in the Brain After a Friendship Breakup
A neurologist explains how your brain reacts to losing a close friend.
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Treating Depression in Women
Why the Evidence-Backed Benefits of Taking Antidepressants During Pregnancy Outweigh Risks
SSRIs during pregnancy have long been surrounded by controversy. But experts emphasize their benefits.
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How to Safely Stop Taking Antidepressants
You can take antidepressants for several months or even years, but after a while, you may feel ready to try life without them. Some people stop taking antidepressants because they think they don’t need them anymore, and others may want to be done with antidepressant side effects like headaches, insomnia, and low libido.
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Latinas, Taking Mental Health Medication Doesn’t Make You “Loca”
During my junior year of high school, I began struggling with invasive, destructive thoughts. I was clinically depressed, and as a teenager, I had no idea how to manage these troubling apprehensions and emotions.
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Blog Posts
You’re Not as Unique as You Think You Are
How OCD sufferers get tripped up with anxiety, worry, and doubt: A brief Q&A.
Salute to Mothers: Mental Health in Pregnancy and Postpartum
Here are underrecognized mental health struggles many mothers experience.
Is COVID-19 Causing an "Epidemic" of OCD?
Coping with anxiety due to the pandemic
Physician Suicide Is Not a Passing COVID-Era Problem
When is it going to be the right time to do something about physician health?
September Is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
Advice from a New York psychiatrist in the COVID era.
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Articles or Abstracts of Articles
DNR versus DNT: clinical implications of a conceptual ambiguity: a case analysis
Abstract
Psychiatrists who practice psychosomatic medicine are routinely called upon to help resolve ethical dilemmas that arise in the care of patients near the end of their lives.
Caring for persons with early childhood trauma, PTSD, and HIV: a curriculum for clinicians
Abstract
Access and adherence to medical care enable persons with HIV to live longer and healthier lives. Adherence to care improves quality of life, prevents progression to AIDS, and also has significant public health implications.
Books
Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry.Oxford University Press, September 2008
A Paradigm for Integrated Care
Second Edition
Cohen MA, Batista SM, Gorman JM. Chapter 11: Anxiety Disorders in Comprehensive Textbook of AIDS Psychiatry.Oxford University Press, September 2008.
Handbook of AIDS Psychiatry. Oxford University Press, New York, 2010
Mary Ann Cohen, Harold Goforth, Joseph Lux, Sharon Batista, Sami Khalife, Kelly Cozza, and Jocelyn Soffer
Chapters 2, 3, 6, 7,13 & 14
Mount Sinai Expert Guides. John Wiley & Sons, 2017
Hildebrandt T, Batista SM, Shear M, Alonso Y. Chapter 22: Eating Disorders. In Mount Sinai Expert Guides. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
Loh D, and Dokun O, Batista SM. Chapter 45: Symptomatology and Psychopharmacology Across Cultures. in Mount Sinai Expert Guides. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
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