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"Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Segregation in the American South 1945-1970"

Sep 08, 2021
2:00pm to 3:30pm

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

Kylie M. Smith, Ph.D., Emory University Richardson Seminar on the History of Psychiatry

"Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophia"

Sep 15, 2021
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NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

George J. Makari, M.D., Weill Cornell Medicine Richardson Seminar on the History of Psychiatry

“Colonizing Madness: Asylum and Community in Fiji”

Nov 03, 2021
2:00pm to 3:30pm

Jacqueline Lecki, Ph.D., Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Richardson Seminar on the History of Psychiatry https://weillcornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/...

"From the Outside In: Goffman's Concept of Stigma and Observational Research in the Human Sciences"

Dec 15, 2021
2:00pm to 3:30pm

Heather Love, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania https://weillcornell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tfuCuqD4rHtQI2C9TA6bfMMtRpuYonx3C

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The COVID-19 Crisis: How to Cope with Fear and Social Isolation

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought multiple and sudden mental health stresses upon Americans en masse: isolation because of social distancing, the need to telecommute and care for children home from school, and for some, abrupt unemployment. Added to the logistical and economic burdens is the fear of contracting or dying from an illness that did not even exist a few months ago – and the ramifications for children and loved ones.

But despite the risks for anxiety and depression that may...

A common variation in a human gene that affects the brain’s reward processing circuit increases vulnerability to the rewarding effects of the main psychoactive ingredient of cannabis in adolescent females, but not males, according to preclinical research by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. As adolescence represents a highly sensitive period of brain development with the highest risk for initiating cannabis use, these findings in mice have important implications for understanding the...

Learning to associate distinct signals with safety has been shown by researchers to reduce fear and anxiety. Now, a study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian and Yale University demonstrates that these safety signals activate different circuits in the brain from those involved in typical anxiety therapy, suggesting the approach may enhance treatments for individuals with anxiety disorders or serve as an alternative to current interventions.

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