
Dr. Olivia I Okereke MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
55 Fruit St 149-2691 Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Olivia Okereke is a psychiatrist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Okereke is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Okereke diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Okereke 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. Okereke treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1998
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Geriatric Psychiatry
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neuropsychiatric complications associated with interferon-alpha-2b treatment of malignant melanoma.
- Fasting insulin levels and cognitive decline in older women without diabetes.
- Ethnicity and geriatric psychiatry.
- Adiposity and weight change in mid-life in relation to healthy survival after age 70 in women: prospective cohort study.
- Physical activity at midlife in relation to successful survival in women at age 70 years or older.
- Relation between clinical depression risk and physical activity and time spent watching television in older women: a 10-year prospective follow-up study.
- Bidirectional association between depression and metabolic syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies.
- Long-term adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with overall cognitive status, but not cognitive decline, in women.
- Seafood types and age-related cognitive decline in the Women's Health Study.
- Phobic anxiety and cognitive performance over 4 years among community-dwelling older women in the Nurses' Health Study.
- Mediterranean diet and cognitive function in older age.
- Coffee, caffeine, and risk of completed suicide: results from three prospective cohorts of American adults.
- Prospective study on long-term dietary patterns and incident depression in middle-aged and older women.
- Cigarette smoking and completed suicide: results from 3 prospective cohorts of American adults.
- C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, soluble tumor necrosis factor α receptor 2 and incident clinical depression.
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