Dr. James Edward Spar MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
300 Med Plz Los Angeles CA, 90095Rating
4/5
About
Dr. James Spar is a psychiatrist practicing in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Spar is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Spar diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Spar 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. Spar treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, Los Angeles, Ucla Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1972
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Geriatric Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Virtual publication.
- Assessing competency to make a will.
- Assessing Undue Influence.
- HLA antigens in depressed, demented, and nondemented elderly.
- Quantitative EEG Correlates of Outcome in Older Psychiatric Patients: Part II: Two-Year Follow-Up of Patients With Depression.
- The late-onset psychoses. Clinical and diagnostic features.
- Clinical tests of memory in dementia, depression, and healthy aging.
- Electroencephalographic spectra and coherence in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's-type and multi-infarct dementia. A pilot study.
- Plasma trazodone concentrations in elderly depressed inpatients: cardiac effects and short-term efficacy.
- The board-and-care home: does it deserve a bad press?
- The board-and-care home: does it deserve a bad press?
- Dementia in the aged.
- Major depression in the elderly: DSM-III criteria and the dexamethasone suppression test as predictors of treatment response.
- Reversible cardiac conduction abnormality associated with trazodone administration.
- Does the dexamethasone suppression test distinguish dementia from depression?
Dr. James Edward Spar MD's Practice location
Ucla Mental Health Group
760 Westwood Plz Ste 37-370 -Los Angeles, CA 90095Get Direction
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