Dr. Robert T Light MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1500 E Little Creek Road Ste205 Hampton Toads Norfolk VA, 23518Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Robert Light is a psychiatrist practicing in Norfolk, VA. Dr. Light is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Light diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Light 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. Light treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
American Univ Of The Caribbean- Sch Of Med- Plymouth- Montserrat 1999
University of Virginia School of Medicine 2003
American University Of The Caribbean School Of Medicine 1999
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Indigent health care plan for Tennessee.
- Health access incentive program in retrospect.
- Limitation of myocardial reperfusion injury by intravenous perfluorochemicals. Role of neutrophil activation.
- Tennessee WIC infant formula rebate program update.
- Lead toxicity screening through the Medicaid EPSDT program.
- Orthostatic hypotension: clinical spectrum and approach to treatment.
- Febrile reactions to pneumococcal vaccine.
- Febrile reactions to pneumococcal vaccine.
- Neuropeptide Y is a vasoconstrictor of human coronary arteries.
- Tennessee WIC infant formula rebate program: excessive prescriptions for non-contract infant formula.
- Preservation of endothelial cell structure and function by intracoronary perfluorochemical in a canine preparation of reperfusion.
- Automated assay for alpha 1-antitrypsin with N-alpha-benzoyl-DL-arginine-p-nitroanilide as trypsin substrate and standardized with p-nitrophenyl-p'-guanidinobenzoate as titrant for trypsin active sites.
- Kinetic ethylene glycol assay with use of yeast alcohol dehydrogenase.
- Ethylene glycol poisoning.
- Targeting needs of the underserved: current programs in Tennessee.
Treatments
- Bipolar Disorder
- Anxiety
- Psychosis
- Dementia
- Adjustment Disorder
- Schizophrenia
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