Dr. Laurence B. Guttmacher M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1111 Elmwood Ave Rochester NY, 14620Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Laurence Guttmacher is a psychiatrist practicing in Rochester, NY. Dr. Guttmacher is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Guttmacher diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Guttmacher 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. Guttmacher treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 1979
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Effects of Electroconvulsive Therapy on the Electrocardiogram in Geriatric Patients with Stable Cardiovascular Diseases.
- Were we all asleep at the switch? A personal reminiscence of psychiatry from 1940 to 2010.
- Pharmacology of behavioral syndromes in neurology.
- Treatment of the cardiac-impaired depressed patient. Part I: General considerations, heterocyclic antidepressants, and monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
- Treatment of the cardiac-impaired depressed patient. Part II: Lithium, carbamazepine, and electroconvulsive therapy.
- Amnesia for the McCollough effect following unilateral electroconvulsive therapy: implications for laterality.
- Electroconvulsive therapy in one child and three adolescents.
- Pharmacologic models of anxiety.
- D-amphetamine in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Epidemiologic considerations in electroconvulsive therapy.
- The dexamethasone suppression test in patients with primary obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Coexistence of childhood onset pervasive developmental disorder and attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity.
- Haloperidol decanoate: injection site reactions.
- Reminiscences of John Romano and reflections on the state of psychiatric education.
- Facilitating effective residency education on short-term inpatient units.
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