Mr. Joseph Irwin Friedman MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
998 Crooked Hill Road Pilgrim Psychiatric Brentwood NY, 11717About
Dr. Joseph Friedman is a psychiatrist practicing in Brentwood, NY. Dr. Friedman is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Friedman diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Friedman 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. Friedman treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Medical College of Wisconsin 1992
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cortical and subcortical cognitive deficits in schizophrenia: convergence of classifications based on language and memory skill areas.
- The course of functional decline in geriatric patients with schizophrenia: cognitive-functional and clinical symptoms as determinants of change.
- Cholinergic targets for cognitive enhancement in schizophrenia: focus on
- Activation symptoms and discharge in elderly chronic schizophrenic inpatients.
- Special issue: Molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia.
- Relationships between white matter metabolite abnormalities, cognitive and social functioning in elderly schizophrenic subjects.
- The effects of hypertension and body mass index on diffusion tensor imaging in schizophrenia.
- Novel imaging strategies for assessment of cerebrovascular involvement.
- Brain imaging changes associated with risk factors for cardiovascular and
- Reply: Asymptomatic cardiovascular risk assessment: the road less traveled.
- Copy Number Variation in Syndromic Forms of Psychiatric Illness: The Emerging Value of Clinical Genetic Testing in Psychiatry.
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