Dr. Timothy Edwin Wilens MD
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
55 Fruit St Yaw 6900 Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Timothy Wilens practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Boston, MA. Dr. Wilens 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. Wilens seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
Univ of Mi Med Sch, Ann Arbor Mi 1985
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Addiction Psychiatry
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Absence of cardiovascular adverse effects of sertraline in children and adolescents.
- Combining methylphenidate and clonidine: a clinically sound medication option.
- Dopamine D4 gene 7-repeat allele and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
- Controlled trial of high doses of pemoline for adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
- Risk for substance use disorders in youths with child- and adolescent-onset bipolar disorder.
- Risperidone treatment for juvenile bipolar disorder: a retrospective chart review.
- Clinical correlates of ADHD in females: findings from a large group of girls ascertained from pediatric and psychiatric referral sources.
- Further validation of social impairment as a predictor of substance use disorders: findings from a sample of siblings of boys with and without ADHD.
- A pilot controlled clinical trial of ABT-418, a cholinergic agonist, in the treatment of adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
- Systematic chart review of the pharmacologic treatment of comorbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in youth with bipolar disorder.
- The stimulants revisited.
- Is bipolar disorder a risk for cigarette smoking in ADHD youth?
- Pediatric mania: a developmental subtype of bipolar disorder?
- Therapeutic dilemmas in the pharmacotherapy of bipolar depression in the young.
- Adjunctive donepezil in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder youth: case series.
Awards
- Boston Super Doctors 2011
- Multiple Best Doctors In America
- Associate Professor Of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical
- School
- Best Doctor'S In America/best Of Boston
- *Board Certified Sub-Specialty In Addiction
- Psychiatry (board Of Psychiatry And Neurology)*
Fellowships
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Massachusetts General Hospital, :Child Psychiatry 1988
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