Dr. Claude R Cloninger MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
4940 Childrens Pl Room 3308 Saint Louis MO, 63110Rating
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Dr. Claude Cloninger is a psychiatrist practicing in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Cloninger is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Cloninger diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Cloninger 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. Cloninger treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
University of Umea Ph.D. honoris causa (Genetics) 1983
University of Gothenburg Ph.D. honoris causa (Psychology) 2012
Washington Univ Sch Of Med- St Louis Mo 1970
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 new conceptual paradigm from genetics and psychobiology for the science of mental health.
- Relationships of plasma tryptophan availability to course of illness and clinical features of alcoholism: a preliminary study.
- The Junior Temperament and Character Inventory: preliminary validation of a child self-report measure.
- Description of the Genetic Analysis Workshop 11 Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism.
- Relationship between serotonin and the temperament and character inventory.
- Genetic and state variables of neurocognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia: a twin study.
- A practical way to diagnosis personality disorder: a proposal.
- Functional variant in the DRD2 receptor promoter region and subtypes of alcoholism.
- Age of onset as a discriminator between alcoholic subtypes in a treatment-seeking outpatient population.
- Ondansetron for reduction of drinking among biologically predisposed alcoholic patients: A randomized controlled trial.
- Relationships between Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire Dimensions and DSM-III-R personality traits in Italian adolescents.
- Diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder with the MMPI: PK scale scores in somatization disorder.
- Hysteria and parental psychiatric illness.
- Visual P300 and the self-directedness scale of the Temperament and Character Inventory.
- The multifactorial model of disease transmission: I. Description of the model and its use in psychiatry.
Areas of expertise and specialization
Faculty Titles & Positions
- Wallace Renard Professor of Psychiatry Washington University in St. Louis 1991 - 2017
Awards
- Adolf Meyer Award 1993 American Psychiatric Association
- Judd Marmor Award 2009 American Psychiatric Association
- Oskar Pfister Award 2014 American Psychiatric Associatin
- Lifetime Achievement Award 2000 American Society of Addiction Medicine
- Lifetime Achievement Award 2003 International Society of Psychiatric Genetics
- Samuel Hamilton Award 1993 American Psychopathological Association
- Alumnae Achievement Award 2015 Washington University
Professional Memberships
- American Psychiatric Association
- National Academy of Medicine
Charities and Philanthropic Endeavors
- Anthropedia Foundation
Areas of research
Science of Well-being, Genetics of personality and psychopathologyDr. Claude R Cloninger MD's Practice location
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