Dr. Katherine A Halmi M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
21 Bloomingdale Rd White Plains NY, 10605About
Dr. Katherine Halmi is a psychiatrist practicing in White Plains, NY. Dr. Halmi is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Halmi diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Halmi 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. Halmi treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
University of Iowa Medical School MD
University of Ia Roy J & L Carver Com 1965
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- More males seek treatment for eating disorders.
- Substance dependence and eating disorders: impact of sequence on comorbidity.
- Eating disorders: defining the phenotype and reinventing the treatment.
- Bright light therapy decreases winter binge frequency in women with bulimia nervosa: a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
- A search for susceptibility loci for anorexia nervosa: methods and sample description.
- Outcome predictors for the cognitive behavior treatment of bulimia nervosa: data from a multisite study.
- LH and FSH response to gonadotropin-releasing hormone in anorexia nervosa: Effect of nutritional rehabilitation.
- Gonadotropin response to LH-RH in anorexia nervosa.
- Comparison of the yale-brown-cornell eating disorders scale in recovered eating disorder patients, restrained dieters, and nondieting controls.
- Familial trisomy 7 mosaicism.
- Subtyping binge eating-disordered women along dieting and negative affect dimensions.
- Changing patterns of hospitalization in eating disorder patients.
- An eating disorder curriculum for primary care providers.
- Neurocognitive evidence favors "top down" over "bottom up" mechanisms in the pathogenesis of body size distortions in anorexia nervosa.
- Differences in DSM-III-R and DSM-IV diagnoses in eating disorder patients.
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