Dr. Joseph Thomas Sakai M.D.
Addiction Psychiatrist | Addiction Psychiatry
12469 E 17th Pl Bldg 400 Mail Stop F Aurora CO, 80045About
Dr. Joseph Sakai is an Addiction Psychiatrist practicing in Aurora, CO. Dr. Sakai evaluates, diagnoses, and treats people who suffer from impulse control conditions related to addiction. As an Addiction Psychiatrist, Dr. Sakai is a substance abuse expert, and is trained to fully understand the biological science behind addiction, in order to properly treat each patient.
Education and Training
Tulane Univ Sch of Med, New Orleans La 1997
Tulane University of Louisiana 1997
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Addiction Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Inhalant use, abuse, and dependence among adolescent patients: commonly comorbid problems.
- Validity of transdermal alcohol monitoring: fixed and self-regulated dosing.
- Adolescent inhalant use among male patients in treatment for substance and behavior problems: two-year outcome.
- Medical student attitudes to risk taking and self-perceived influence on medical practice.
- Case-control and within-family tests for an association between conduct disorder and 5HTTLPR.
- Test of association between TaqIA A1 allele and alcohol use disorder phenotypes in a sample of adolescent patients with serious substance and behavioral problems.
- Progression from marijuana use to daily smoking and nicotine dependence in a national sample of U.S. adolescents.
- Between- and within-family association test of the dopamine receptor D2 TaqIA polymorphism and alcohol abuse and dependence in a general population sample of adults.
- Case-control and within-family tests for association between 5HTTLPR and conduct problems in a longitudinal adolescent sample.
- Item response theory analysis of DSM-IV cannabis abuse and dependence criteria in
- Case-control and within-family tests for an association between conduct disorder and DAT1.
- Test of association between GABRA2 (SNP rs279871) and adolescent conduct/alcohol use disorders utilizing a sample of clinic referred youth with serious substance and conduct problems, controls and available first degree relatives.
- Using trajectory analyses to refine phenotype for genetic association: conduct problems and the serotonin transporter (5HTTLPR).
- Reduced cortical gray matter volume in male adolescents with substance and conduct problems.
- Test of association between 10 single nucleotide polymorphisms in the oxytocin receptor gene and conduct disorder.
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