The MIND Clinic for Mood and Personality Disorders
Directed by Dr. M. Elizabeth Sublette, Leader of Conte Center Clinical Evaluation Core 2, the MIND Clinic is dedicated to caring for patients and healthy volunteers enrolling in our research studies on mood disorders (major depression and bipolar disorder), borderline personality disorder, and the prevention of suicide and self-injury.
Our staff consists of research psychiatrists and psychologists with expertise in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of these conditions, and research coordinators who facilitate the interactions between each participant and the MIND team. We strive to combine research into better ways of treating mood disorders and preventing suicidal behavior with optimal clinical care.
Professional Resources for Clinicians and Researchers
Click here for access to the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry and New York State Psychiatric Institute’s weekly Online Videos from Adult and Child Psychiatry Grand Rounds, and Gender, Sexuality and Health Division Grand Rounds.
Among shared resources we have developed, the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) has been translated into over 90 languages; multiple adaptations for specific situations and populations are available free of charge to all clinicians and investigators through the Columbia Lighthouse Project.
We have also developed and make available methodology for candidate gene assays, cerebrospinal fluid assays, and toxicology that are available to other research groups.
Faculty in our division have international reputations and recognition for their research work and publish their research findings in leading research journals, including Biological Psychiatry, The American Journal of Psychiatry and the Journal of the American Medical Association: Psychiatry, and at national and international conferences, including those of The American Psychiatric Association, The Society of Biological Psychiatry, The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology ) and The Society for Neuroscience.
Our work with ketamine and suicide risk has been featured as well in the popular press, e.g. in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Other ongoing studies include fMRI studies through the SCAN lab http://www.ochsnerscanlab.org/ headed by Dr. Kevin Ochsner and an MRI study of grief: https://themighty.com/2018/08/survive-together-suicide-loss-survivor-study/ under the direction of Dr. Noam Schneck.
Resources on Depression and Suicide Prevention for the Public
Depression
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- Depression Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA)
Borderline Personality Disorder
Bipolar Disorder
Suicide Prevention
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
- Suicide Prevention Resource Center: (SPRC)
- Best Practices Registry provided by AFSP and SPRC
- International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR)
- International Association of Suicide Prevention (IASP)
- New York State Suicide Prevention– Educate, Recognize, Act (ERA), sponsored by the NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH)
Organizations Devoted to Depression and Suicide Research
- Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
- Society of Biological Psychiatry
- American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
Our Institution
- Columbia University Medical Center
- New York State Psychiatric Institute
- Research Foundation of Mental Hygiene
- Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry, Molecular Imaging and Neuropathology Division (M.I.N.D.)