Dr. Neal Robert Swerdlow M.D., PH.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
9500 Gilman Dr. Ucsd Department Of P La Jolla CA, 92093About
Dr. Neal Swerdlow is a psychiatrist practicing in La Jolla, CA. Dr. Swerdlow is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Swerdlow diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Swerdlow may treat patients through a variety of methods including medications, psychotherapy or talk therapy, psychosocial interventions and more, depending on each individual case. Different medications that a psychiatrist might prescribe include antidepressants, antipsychotic mediations, mood stabilizers, stimulants, sedatives and hypnotics. Dr. Swerdlow treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Enhanced visual latent inhibition in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Saccadic performance characteristics and the behavioural neurology of Tourette's syndrome.
- Symptom correlates of prepulse inhibition deficits in male schizophrenic patients.
- Effects of sustained cocaine exposure on sensorimotor gating of startle in rats.
- Effects of sustained phencyclidine exposure on sensorimotor gating of startle in rats.
- Effects of LU-111995 in three models of disrupted prepulse inhibition in rats.
- Visuospatial priming and stroop performance in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder.
- Is there a "subcortical" profile of attentional dysfunction? A comparison of patients with Huntington's and Parkinson's diseases on a global-local focused attention task.
- Attitudes toward psychiatry as a prospective career among students entering medical school.
- Preliminary findings with a new Vietnamese Stroop test.
- Ontogeny of phencyclidine and apomorphine-induced startle gating deficits in rats.
- Hippocampal lesions enhance startle gating-disruptive effects of apomorphine in
- Distributed neurodegenerative changes 2-28 days after ventral hippocampal excitotoxic lesions in rats.
- Effects of caffeine on sensorimotor gating of the startle reflex in normal control subjects: impact of caffeine intake and withdrawal.
- "Early" and "late" effects of sustained haloperidol on apomorphine- and phencyclidine-induced sensorimotor gating deficits.
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