Dr. Thomas Peter Laughren M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
4709 Kemper St Rockville MD, 20853About
Dr. Thomas Laughren is a psychiatrist practicing in Rockville, MD. Dr. Laughren is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Laughren diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Laughren 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. Laughren treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
New Jersey College of Dentistry 1971
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The scientific and ethical basis for placebo-controlled trials in depression and schizophrenia: an FDA perspective.
- Comorbid mood disorders and medical illness: a Food and Drug Administration perspective.
- Consensus development conference on antipsychotic drugs and obesity and diabetes: response to consensus statement.
- Suicide rates in short-term randomized controlled trials of newer antidepressants.
- Trial design issues and treatment effect modeling in multi-regional schizophrenia trials.
- What's next after 50 years of psychiatric drug development: an FDA perspective.
- Exploratory analyses of efficacy data from major depressive disorder trials submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration in support of new drug applications.
- Exploratory analyses of efficacy data from schizophrenia trials in support of new drug applications submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration.
- CYP2D6 genotype information to guide pimozide treatment in adult and pediatric patients: basis for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's new dosing recommendations.
- An integrated approach for establishing dosing recommendations: paliperidone for the treatment of adolescent schizophrenia.
- Development of a placebo effect model combined with a dropout model for bipolar disorder.
- Defining a clinically meaningful effect for the design and interpretation of randomized controlled trials.
- Female reproductive life cycle and hormones: methodology to improve clinical trials.
- The review of clinical safety data in a new drug application.
- Serum neuroleptic levels, prolactin levels, and relapse: a two-year study of schizophrenic outpatients.
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