Dr. Michael Alan Silver M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
530 N Main St Providence RI, 02904About
Dr. Michael Silver is a psychiatrist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Silver is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Silver diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Silver 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. Silver treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Pa Sch of Med, Philadelphia Pa 1971
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1971
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Grouping and segmentation in binocular rivalry.
- Topographic maps of visual spatial attention in human parietal cortex.
- Neural correlates of sustained spatial attention in human early visual cortex.
- Temporal frequency and contrast tagging bias the type of competition in interocular switch rivalry.
- Cholinergic enhancement reduces spatial spread of visual responses in human early visual cortex.
- A model of encoding and decoding in V1 and MT accounts for motion perception anisotropies in the human visual system.
- Topographic maps in human frontal and parietal cortex.
- Top-down flow of visual spatial attention signals from parietal to occipital cortex.
- Spatial attention improves reliability of fMRI retinotopic mapping signals in occipital and parietal cortex.
- Cholinergic enhancement increases the effects of voluntary attention but does not affect involuntary attention.
- Cholinergic enhancement augments magnitude and specificity of visual perceptual learning in healthy humans.
- Modulation of inhibition of return by the dopamine D2 receptor agonist bromocriptine depends on individual DAT1 genotype.
- Distinct contributions of the magnocellular and parvocellular visual streams to perceptual selection.
- Broader visual orientation tuning in patients with schizophrenia.
- Predictive Context Influences Perceptual Selection during Binocular Rivalry.
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