A study reports that the brains of a small sample of patients who died of COVID display some of the same molecular changes found in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease.
Loss of smell in COVID may be caused by a dramatic rearrangement of chromosomes in the cells that connect the nose to the brain, a study by Columbia neuroscientists suggests.
A grant from the National Institutes of Health will establish a multi-institutional group in New York City to address health disparities in multiple chronic diseases.
Randy P. Auerbach is an associate professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Columbia University and a principal investigator of the study.
From 19th century medical students denied their degrees to today's surgeons, many Black clinicians have connections to Columbia University Irving Medical Center.