Dr. Flora M. Vaccarino M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
230 S Frontage Rd Child Study Center New Haven CT, 06519About
Dr. Flora Vaccarino is a psychiatrist practicing in New Haven, CT. Dr. Vaccarino is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Vaccarino diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Vaccarino 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. Vaccarino treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Padua School of Medicine-Italy MD
University of Padova / Faculty of Medicine And Surgery 1980
Padua School of Medicine-Italy 1979
Universit‡ degli Studi di Padova Scuola di Medicina e Chirurgia 1980
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Fibroblast growth factor signaling regulates growth and morphogenesis at multiple steps during brain development.
- Progressive impairment of developing neuroendocrine cell lineages in the hypothalamus of mice lacking the Orthopedia gene.
- Basic fibroblast growth factor (Fgf2) is necessary for cell proliferation and neurogenesis in the developing cerebral cortex.
- The subcellular localization of Otx2 is cell-type specific and developmentally regulated in the mouse retina.
- Stem cells in neurodevelopment and plasticity.
- Fibroblast growth factor 2 is necessary for the growth of glutamate projection neurons in the anterior neocortex.
- Chronic hypoxia up-regulates fibroblast growth factor ligands in the perinatal brain and induces fibroblast growth factor-responsive radial glial cells in the sub-ependymal zone.
- Modeling thought and feelings: the why, what and whereabouts of animals in psychiatry.
- Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 is required for the proliferation of hippocampal progenitor cells and for hippocampal growth in mouse.
- Fibroblast growth factor 2 is required for maintaining the neural stem cell pool in the mouse brain subventricular zone.
- Cortical neurogenesis enhanced by chronic perinatal hypoxia.
- Altered parvalbumin-positive neuron distribution in basal ganglia of individuals with Tourette syndrome.
- Modulation of protein kinase C translocation by excitatory and inhibitory amino acids in primary cultures of neurons.
- Annotation: Tourette syndrome: a relentless drumbeat--driven by misguided brain oscillations.
- Midline radial glia translocation and corpus callosum formation require FGF signaling.
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