Dr. Thomas Alvin Wehr M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
5215 W Cedar Ln 204b Bethesda MD, 20814Rating
3/5
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Dr. Thomas Wehr is a psychiatrist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Wehr is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Wehr diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Wehr 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. Wehr treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Louisville Sch of Med, Louisville Ky 1969
University of Louisville School of Medicine 1969
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Serotonin hypothesis of winter depression: behavioral and neuroendocrine effects of the 5-HT(1A) receptor partial agonist ipsapirone in patients with seasonal affective disorder and healthy control subjects.
- Two circadian rhythms in the human electroencephalogram during wakefulness.
- Free thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone levels in patients with seasonal affective disorder and matched controls.
- Ultradian oscillations in cranial thermoregulation and electroencephalographic slow-wave activity during sleep are abnormal in humans with annual winter depression.
- Dynamics of electroencephalographic slow wave activity and body temperature during monophasic and biphasic human sleep.
- Evidence from the waking electroencephalogram that short sleepers live under higher homeostatic sleep pressure than long sleepers.
- Assembling a clock for all seasons: are there M and E oscillators in the genes?
- Photoperiodism in humans and other primates: evidence and implications.
- Evidence for a biological dawn and dusk in the human circadian timing system.
- Band-specific electroencephalogram and brain cooling abnormalities during NREM sleep in patients with winter depression.
- Spontaneous sleep interruptions during extended nights. Relationships with NREM and REM sleep phases and effects on REM sleep regulation.
- A longer biological night in long sleepers than in short sleepers.
- Seasonal vulnerability to depression. Implications for etiology and treatment.
- Cerebral glucose metabolism in patients with summer seasonal affective disorder.
- Hypernyctohemeral syndrome after chronotherapy for delayed sleep phase syndrome.
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