
Dr. Debra L Franko PHD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital 55 Fruit Street Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Debra Franko is a psychiatrist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Franko is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Franko diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Franko 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. Franko treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Subclinical eating disorders in adolescent women: a test of the continuity hypothesis and its psychological correlates.
- Body image disturbance and psychodynamic psychotherapy with gay men.
- The role of body dissatisfaction as a risk factor for depression in adolescent girls: are the differences Black and White?
- Epidemiology of binge eating disorder.
- The Bulimic Automatic Thoughts Test: initial reliability and validity data.
- A collaborative approach to nutrition education for college students.
- A pilot study of a multimedia puberty module for middle schoolers.
- The relationship of breakfast and cereal consumption to nutrient intake and body mass index: the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study.
- Night eating: prevalence and demographic correlates.
- Residential treatment for eating disorders.
- Drug abuse in women with eating disorders.
- Suicidality in eating disorders: occurrence, correlates, and clinical implications.
- Should night eating syndrome be included in the DSM?
- Self-esteem in adolescent females.
- Public-health approach to eating disorders.
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