“This is not a mild disease, for a percentage of people it is much worse than I would have anticipated,” said Dr. Jason Zucker, an infectious disease specialist at the NewYork-Presbyterian clinic.
Columbia psychiatrist Roberto Lewis-Fernández, MD, directs the Hispanic Treatment Program and works to reduce disparities in the care of underserved cultural groups.
Using EEG to identify covert consciousness in unresponsive brain-injured patients could help predict which ones may recover, find researchers at Columbia and NewYork-Presbyterian.
The calls are particularly helpful when the counselors are properly trained in suicide-risk management, said Madelyn Gould, a Columbia University epidemiologist.
