Dr. Richard E Kast M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
2 Church Street Burlington VT, 05401Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Richard Kast is a psychiatrist practicing in Burlington, VT. Dr. Kast is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Kast diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Kast 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. Kast treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Kobenhavns Univ, Det Laegevidenskabelige Fak, Kobenhavn, Denmark 1978
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Expert Publications
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- Dementia and statins.
- Mirtazapine may be useful in treating nausea and insomnia of cancer chemotherapy.
- Borage oil reduction of rheumatoid arthritis activity may be mediated by increased cAMP that suppresses tumor necrosis factor-alpha.
- Acarbose related diarrhea: increased butyrate upregulates prostaglandin E.
- Feedback between glial tumor necrosis factor-alpha and gp120 from HIV-infected cells helps maintain infection and destroy neurons.
- Ribavirin in cancer immunotherapies: controlling nitric oxide helps generate cytotoxic lymphocyte.
- Ribavirin in cancer immunotherapies: controlling nitric oxide augments cytotoxic lymphocyte function.
- Bupropion in psoriasis and atopic dermatitis: decreased tumor necrosis factor-alpha?
- Tenofovir, COX inhibitors and zileuton during cancer immunotherapies: up-regulated TNF-alpha increases antigen driven lymphocyte proliferation.
- Crohn's disease remission on bupropion.
- Anti- and pro-inflammatory considerations in antidepressant use during medical illness: bupropion lowers and mirtazapine increases circulating tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels.
- Bupropion for Blau syndrome.
- Paroxetine for hepatopulmonary syndrome?
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