Dr. Steven Alan Rasmussen MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
345 Blackstone Blvd Providence RI, 02906Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Steven Rasmussen is a psychiatrist practicing in Providence, RI. Dr. Rasmussen is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Rasmussen diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Rasmussen 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. Rasmussen treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University 1977
Albany Medical College - Union University 1991
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A randomized placebo-controlled trial of fluoxetine in body dysmorphic disorder.
- Refractory obsessive-compulsive disorder: state-of-the-art treatment.
- Neurosurgery for intractable obsessive-compulsive disorder and depression: critical issues.
- Insight in obsessive compulsive disorder and body dysmorphic disorder.
- [What is the role of psychiatric neurosurgery in the 21st Century?].
- Change in psychosocial functioning and quality of life of patients with body dysmorphic disorder treated with fluoxetine: a placebo-controlled study.
- Obsessive compulsive personality disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder: clinical characteristics, diagnostic difficulties, and treatment.
- Impulse control disorders in adults with obsessive compulsive disorder.
- The OCD collaborative genetics study: methods and sample description.
- A functional neuroimaging investigation of deep brain stimulation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder: recognition across medical settings, and treatments from behavior therapy to neurosurgery.
- Impact of obsessive-compulsive disorder on quality of life.
- Clarifying the convergence between obsessive compulsive personality disorder criteria and obsessive compulsive disorder.
- Hoarding in obsessive-compulsive disorder: results from the OCD Collaborative Genetics Study.
- The Brown Longitudinal Obsessive Compulsive Study: clinical features and symptoms of the sample at intake.
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