Dr. Daphne J Holt M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
149 13th St Mgh East Charlestown MA, 02129Rating
5/5
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Dr. Daphne Holt is a psychiatrist practicing in Charlestown, MA. Dr. Holt is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Holt diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Holt 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. Holt treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Chicago, Pritzker Sch of Med, Chicago Il 1998
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med 1993
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Increased temporal and prefrontal activity in response to semantic associations in schizophrenia.
- Association of impaired facial affect recognition with basic facial and visual processing deficits in schizophrenia.
- Selective emotional processing deficits to social vignettes in schizophrenia: an ERP study.
- The COMT Val108/158Met polymorphism and medial temporal lobe volumetry in patients with schizophrenia and healthy adults.
- Lower-level stimulus features strongly influence responses in the fusiform face area.
- Learning task-optimal registration cost functions for localizing cytoarchitecture
- Test-retest reliability during fear acquisition and fear extinction in humans.
- Subclinical delusional thinking predicts lateral temporal cortex responses during social reflection.
- Lack of insula reactivity to aversive stimuli in schizophrenia.
- Factors that distinguish college students with depressive symptoms with and without suicidal thoughts.
- fMRI analysis of contrast polarity in face-selective cortex in humans and monkeys.
- Incentive salience: novel treatment strategies for major depression.
- Amygdala perfusion is predicted by its functional connectivity with the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and negative affect.
- Neural responses during social reflection in relatives of schizophrenia patients: relationship to subclinical delusions.
- A parametric study of fear generalization to faces and non-face objects: relationship to discrimination thresholds.
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