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Dr. Christopher Jay Heckman MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
11401 BLOOMFIELD NORWALK CA, 90650About
Dr. Christopher Heckman is a psychiatrist practicing in Pasadena, CA. Dr. Heckman is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Heckman diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Heckman 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. Heckman treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1986
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine & Science 1999
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The role of voltage-sensitive dendritic conductances in generating bistable firing patterns in motoneurons.
- Enhancement of bistability in spinal motoneurons in vivo by the noradrenergic alpha1 agonist methoxamine.
- Paradoxical effect of QX-314 on persistent inward currents and bistable behavior in spinal motoneurons in vivo.
- Synaptic integration in bistable motoneurons.
- Adjustable amplification of synaptic input in the dendrites of spinal motoneurons in vivo.
- Essential role of a fast persistent inward current in action potential initiation and control of rhythmic firing.
- Spinal interneurons that receive input from muscle afferents are differentially modulated by dorsolateral descending systems.
- Whole muscle length-tension properties vary with recruitment and rate modulation in areflexive cat soleus.
- Recruitment of cat motoneurons in the absence of homonymous afferent feedback.
- Relative strengths and distributions of different sources of synaptic input to the motoneurone pool: implications for motor unit recruitment.
- Influence of active dendritic currents on input-output processing in spinal motoneurons in vivo.
- Summation of forces from multiple motor units in the cat soleus muscle.
- Active conductances in motoneuron dendrites enhance movement capabilities.
- Active dendritic integration of inhibitory synaptic inputs in vivo.
- Differences between steady-state and transient post-synaptic potentials elicited by stimulation of the sural nerve.
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Practice At 66 Hurlbut St
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