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Concierge Psychiatry for Depression and Bipolar Disorder
More than ever, people are assuming responsibility for their health. Self-care has moved from a new age concept to daily practice for millions of people. Digital health platforms provide useful information and help inform how people approach treatment modalities for...
Why We are a Concierge Psychiatry Practice
Princeton Concierge Psychiatry has adopted the concierge model as an enhanced form of patient-focused treatment. The concierge model untethers our practice from insurance company reimbursements. In an effort to make our practice even more accessible to a wider range...
Do Pesticides Cause ADHD?
In an article entitled "Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Urinary Metabolites of Organophosphate Pesticides," researchers conclude that "...organophosphate [pesticide] exposure, at levels common among US children, may contribute to ADHD prevalence." (Maryse...
Integrated Psychiatric Care from a Single Provider Is Most Effective
Health insurance companies typically cover a 50-minute initial psychiatric evaluation followed by a 20-minute "med check" every three months or so. The psychiatrist's role is to diagnose and prescribe. The more involved work of psychotherapy is relegated to...
Does My Child Need Psychiatric Care?
My review of Judith Warner's new book: We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication (Riverhead, Hardcover, February 23, 2010). In the United States, the debate over diagnosing and treating children and adolescents for psychiatric, behavioral, and...
Does My Child Have Bipolar Disorder?
Concerned parents often ask me, "Does my child have bipolar disorder?" Over the past 11 years, since the publication of the first edition of The Bipolar Child in 1999, this question has become more and more prevalent. Parents who struggle with this question face a...
Do Antidepressants Really Work?
Recently, patients have been asking me about reports floating around the Internet that question the effectiveness of antidepressants. The source of most of these reports is a recently published study entitled "Antidepressant drug effects and depression severity: a...
Novel Approach Offers Deeper Understanding of Autistic Spectrum Disorder
In an article published in December 2009 in the Neuroscientist titled "The Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Integration in Autism," Dr. Dorit Ben Shalom, a researcher from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel offers a novel conceptual framework of known...