Dr. Javier O Garcia M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
75 Vanderbilt Ave Staten Island NY, 10304Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Javier Garcia is a psychiatrist practicing in Staten Island, NY. Dr. Garcia is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Garcia diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Garcia 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. Garcia treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine 2002
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Visual perception and neural correlates of novel 'biological motion'.
- Necessary but not sufficient: motion perception is required for perceiving biological motion.
- Unconscious processing of color and form in metacontrast masking.
- Motion opponency and transparency in the human middle temporal area.
- Evoked potentials in large-scale cortical networks elicited by TMS of the visual cortex.
- Stimulus complexity modulates contrast response functions in the human middle temporal area (hMT+).
- Temporal dynamics of divided spatial attention.
- Near-real-time feature-selective modulations in human cortex.
- Changing the spatial scope of attention alters patterns of neural gain in human cortex.
- Brain dynamics of post-task resting state are influenced by expertise: Insights from baseball players.
- Differential Functionality of Right and Left Parietal Activity in Controlling a Motor Vehicle.
- Estimating direction in brain-behavior interactions: Proactive and reactive brain states in driving.
- Brain connectivity dynamics during social interaction reflect social network structure.
- Fusing multiple neuroimaging modalities to assess group differences in perception-action coupling.
Treatments
- Bipolar Disorder
- Anxiety
- Psychosis
- Adjustment Disorder
- Schizophrenia
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Practice At 75 Vanderbilt Ave
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