Dr. Fauzia G. Sheikh M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
561 Fairthorne Ave Philadelphia PA, 19128Rating
3/5
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Dr. Fauzia Sheikh is a psychiatrist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Sheikh is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Sheikh diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Sheikh 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. Sheikh treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Fatima Jinnah Med College For Women University Of Punjab Lahore Pakistan 1979
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Geriatric Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Increased peroxisomal fatty acid beta-oxidation and enhanced expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha in diabetic rat liver.
- Expression of a dominant-negative mutant of p21(ras) inhibits induction of nitric oxide synthase and activation of nuclear factor-kappaB in primary astrocytes.
- Induction of nitric-oxide synthase and activation of NF-kappaB by interleukin-12 p40 in microglial cells.
- In vitro binding of cattle PstI SINE with a 33-kDa nuclear protein.
- Increasing cAMP attenuates induction of inducible nitric-oxide synthase in rat primary astrocytes.
- Biochemical features of a patient with Zellweger-like syndrome with normal PTS-1 and PTS-2 peroxisomal protein import systems: a new peroxisomal disease.
- Lovastatin and phenylacetate inhibit the induction of nitric oxide synthase and
- N-acetyl cysteine inhibits induction of no production by endotoxin or cytokine stimulated rat peritoneal macrophages, C6 glial cells and astrocytes.
- Sphingomyelinase and ceramide stimulate the expression of inducible nitric-oxide synthase in rat primary astrocytes.
- Abnormality in catalase import into peroxisomes leads to severe neurological disorder.
- Inhibitors of protein phosphatase 1 and 2A differentially regulate the expression of inducible nitric-oxide synthase in rat astrocytes and macrophages.
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