Dr. Bennett L Leventhal MD
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
1740 W Taylor St Chicago IL, 60612About
Dr. Bennett Leventhal practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Chicago, IL. Dr. Leventhal evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Leventhal seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
La State Univ Sch of Med In New Orleans, New Orleans La 1974
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mutation screening of the UBE3A/E6-AP gene in autistic disorder.
- Physical mapping of the serotonin 5-HT(7) receptor gene (HTR7) to chromosome 10 and pseudogene (HTR7P) to chromosome 12, and testing of linkage disequilibrium between HTR7 and autistic disorder.
- Bipolar disorder and ADHD.
- Mutation screening of human 5-HT(2B)receptor gene in early-onset
- Deletion polymorphism in the coding region of the human NESP55 alternative transcript of GNAS1.
- The autism diagnostic observation schedule-generic: a standard measure of social and communication deficits associated with the spectrum of autism.
- Autism spectrum disorders.
- The association between maternal cigarette smoking and psychiatric diseases or criminal outcome in the offspring.
- Genomic organization of the SLC1A1/EAAC1 gene and mutation screening in
- Quantifying the phenotype in autism spectrum disorders.
- Multisite, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of porcine secretin in autism.
- Transmission disequilibrium mapping at the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) region in autistic disorder.
- Maternal smoking during pregnancy and severe antisocial behavior in offspring: a
- Transmission disequilibrium testing of arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (AVPR1A) polymorphisms in autism.
- The working-class context of pregnancy smoking.
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