Dr. James F Leckman MD
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
230 S Frontage Rd Sterling Hall Of Med New Haven CT, 06519About
Dr. James Leckman practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in New Haven, CT. Dr. Leckman evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Leckman seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
Univ of Nm Sch of Med, Albuquerque Nm 1973
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Cerebrospinal fluid dynorphin A[1-8] and beta-endorphin levels in Tourette's syndrome are unaltered.
- The rituals, fears and phobias of young children: insights from development, psychopathology and neurobiology.
- Psychosocial and clinical correlates of ADHD in a community sample of school-age children.
- Preoccupations and behaviors associated with romantic and parental love. Perspectives on the origin of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Identification, chromosomal assignment, and expression analysis of the human homeodomain-containing gene Orthopedia (OTP).
- Early parental preoccupations and behaviors and their possible relationship to the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- The nature of the mother's tie to her infant: maternal bonding under conditions of proximity, separation, and potential loss.
- Incremental progress in developmental psychopathology: simply complex.
- The Tourette syndrome diagnostic confidence index: development and clinical associations.
- Pharmacologic treatment of tic disorders.
- Corpus callosum morphology from magnetic resonance images in Tourette's syndrome.
- Sensory phenomena in obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette's disorder.
- Social and emotional adjustment in children affected with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome: associations with ADHD and family functioning. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
- Preliminary findings of antistreptococcal antibody titers and basal ganglia volumes in tic, obsessive-compulsive, and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders.
- The inheritance of affective disorders: a review of data and of hypotheses.
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