Dr. Carrie Ernst, MD

Bio

Dr. Ernst is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Assistant Director of the Psychosomatic Medicine Fellowship program at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 


After receiving her MD from Cornell Medical College, Dr. Ernst completed her residency at Cambridge Hospital/Harvard Medical School and went on to do a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital. 


Dr. Ernst is board certified in both General Adult Psychiatry and Psychiatry of the Medically Ill. She is an attending psychiatrist at the Jack Martin Fund Clinic where she works with patients living with HIV/AIDS.  She also works on the general consultation liaison service treating psychiatric conditions in the medically ill. Her areas of interest include: traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, stroke, HIV/AIDS, pregnancy and postpartum, psychopharmacology, and student mental health. 



Specialties:

  • psychiatry

Affiliation:

  • The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Location:

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    MONDAY, May 20 (HealthDay News) -- As the American Psychiatric Association unveiled last week the latest edition of what is considered the "bible" of modern psychiatry, the uproar over its many changes continues.

    "This is unprecedented, the amount of commentary and debate and criticism," ...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, May 17 (HealthDay News) -- As the American Psychiatric Association unveils the latest edition of what is considered the "bible" of modern psychiatry this weekend, the uproar over its many changes continues.

    "This is unprecedented, the amount of commentary and debate and criticism,...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, May 1 (HealthDay News) -- Depression is relatively common in patients who undergo heart bypass surgery, and a new study finds that short-term use of antidepressants may aid patients' recovery.

    "Depression among patients requiring or having undergone [bypass] surgery is high and...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, April 12 (HealthDay News) -- When the latest version of what is considered the "bible" of psychiatry is unveiled in May, experts believe several changes in it will broaden both the definition and diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- or ADHD.

    But experts also di...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, March 28 (HealthDay News) -- Men obsessed with muscle-building lean toward traditional ideas of masculinity, while men fixated on being thin likely associate with more feminine stereotypes, according to new research.

    Guys consumed by the idea that they...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, March 21 (HealthDay News) -- Children with autism may have a higher-than-average risk of contemplating or attempting suicide, a new study suggests.

    Researchers found that mothers of children with autism were much more likely than other moms to say their child had talked about or...Full Article

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    TUESDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Some doctors may really "feel" a patient's pain -- and also experience relief after they've given the patient treatment, new research suggests.

    In the new study, scientists scanned the brains of doctors as they believed they were offering patients pai...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, Jan. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Bisexual women in the United States are more likely to suffer from domestic violence than either lesbian or heterosexual women, a new government report shows.

    The data, released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the firs...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19 (HealthDay News) -- People with psychiatric disorders have a 30 percent higher death rate from cancer, even though they are no more likely to develop the disease than others. And the underlying reason may be relatively simple: Their cancer is frequently discovered late, often a...Full Article

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    MONDAY, Dec. 3 (HealthDay News) -- The long-awaited revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been approved, bringing with it a series of revisions, additions and subtractions to the tome that is considered the Bible of psychiatry.

    The r...Full Article

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    MONDAY, Nov. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Children exposed to air pollution from traffic and other sources while in the womb and during their first year may be at an increased risk for autism, a new study suggests.

    Infants exposed to the highest levels of air pollution were three times more li...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Grief can be as unpredictable as playing pinball, and reminders of loss can act like pinball rudders and send mourners into a rebound of grief rather than to an exit of acceptance, an expert suggests.

    Comparing grieving to pinball can help people in ...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, Oct. 10 (HealthDay News) -- The brains of people who can't be hypnotized differ from those who are easily put into a trance, a new study finds.

    Researchers used MRI scans to examine activity of three different brain networks in 12 adults who were easi...Full Article

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    How is depression diagnosed?

    Although the term “depression” is often used casually to refer to a sad or low mood state, in psychiatry, the term “Major Depressive Disorder” refers to a specific illness that is characterized by one or more “major depressive episodes.” A major depressive episode is defined very strictly as a period

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  • Carrie Ernst, MD
    Are the love and support of one’s spouse associated with heart health?
    Several studies have found that marital stress may increase the risk of heart disease and worsen the prognosis after an acute cardiac event (such as a heart attack). Negative emotions such as hostility, anxiety, or depression have repeatedly been shown to adversely affect heart health as well. This...  Full Post