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The Lyme and Tick Borne Disease Research Center is located in northern Manhattan at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center on the 3^rd floor of the new location of the New York State Psychiatric Institute at 1051 Riverside Drive (Room 3200), New York City, New York, 10032. Bounded by the Hudson River on one side and Riverside Drive on the other, the NYS Psychiatric Institute's entrance is on Riverside Drive at 168^th Street. Entrance access is possible from Riverside Drive or via an overpass that connects the Psychiatric Institute Annex on Haven Avenue (&168^th Street) with our new building. The Lyme Disease Research Center is readily accessible from New Jersey (via the George Washington Bridge), from Connecticut and Northern New York, and from Long Island.

By Car:

From New Jersey. If coming east across the George Washington Bridge, please take the first exit which should be the West Side Highway (or Henry Hudson Parkway South) which will direct you south. Then take the first exit (Riverside Drive) and go south (take a right onto R.D.). You will pass the Riverside Drive entrance to the NYS Psychiatric Institute on your right. Patients can be dropped off there. For parking, take your first left onto 165^th Street and then your first right onto Fort Washington Avenue. The parking garage is there at 165^th and Fort Washington Avenue. To get to the Psychiatric Institute entrance, either retrace your route or walk up Fort Washington Avenue to 168^th Street, take a left onto 168^th Street, walk directly ahead and the road curves to the right. Shortly after the curve, you will see a red brick building on your left which is the Psychiatric Institute Kolb Annex. The passage to the overpass to the new building starts from the entrance to the Annex.

From Westchester/Rockland Counties or CT. Take either Route 87 or the Hutchinson River Parkway south to the Cross County Parkway West. Go south on the Saw Mill River Parkway which connects to the Henry Hudson Parkway which then crosses the HHP bridge into Manhattan. Exit at Riverside Drive (shortly after you pass under the George Washington Bridge) and follow the directions above.

By Train or Subway or Bus:

Take the A (express), B, or #1 subway to 168^th Street and Broadway. Or take the M2, M3, M4, M5, or M100 bus to 168^th Street. Walk west 2 blocks on 168^th Street and that will bring you to the intersection of Haven Avenue and 168^th Street at which point you will see the Psychiatric Institute Kolb Annex. Follow the directions above.

Trains into either Penn Station or Grand Central Terminal will then allow you to connect to the subway.

If you need clarification of these directions or if you get lost, call 212-543-5367.

How to Contact Us

If you suffer from neurocognitive and/or neuropsychiatric symptoms which may be due to Lyme or another tick-borne disease, please consider coming for the two-day, outpatient, second-opinion evaluation at the Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Evaluation Service.  For further information, please contact Dr. Kathy Corbera at (212) 543-6508.  Inasmuch as the evaluation is comprehensive and a limited number of patients can be seen each week to accommodate the large volume of requests for appointments, it might be several weeks before your telephone call is returned to set up your appointment.  There is a waiting list.  We appreciate your patience.

In the "Research Studies" section of our Web Page, you will see a listing of current studies. If you are outside of commuting distance to New York City, it probably does not make sense for you to consider participating in one of our studies (unless it is a one-time evaluation study). If after reading about the research study, you wish further information about the study, please send an e-mail to the following address: lymecontact@columbia.edu. Please understand that although we know a lot about Lyme Disease, we cannot make clinical recommendations over the phone or through e-mail about patients we have not evaluated in person. We advise that non study-related questions be addressed to your local health care provider. If you have a question about Lyme or other tick borne disease that would be of general interest, please submit it to 'Ask the Doctor'.

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