Dr. Philip David Kanof M.D. PH.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
5901 East 7th St Long Beach Va Medica Long Beach CA, 90822About
Dr. Philip Kanof is a psychiatrist practicing in Long Beach, CA. Dr. Kanof is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Kanof diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Kanof 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. Kanof treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Yale Univ Sch of Med, New Haven Ct 1978
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The dysphoria of heroin addiction.
- Clinical characteristics of naloxone-precipitated withdrawal in human opioid-dependent subjects.
- Fetal transplant-induced restoration of spatial memory in rats with lesions of the nucleus basalis of Meynert.
- Biochemical characterization of histamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase in mammalian brain.
- Biochemical characterization of histamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase in mammalian brain.
- Restoration of cholinomimetic activity by clonidine in cholinergic plus noradrenergic lesioned rats.
- Frontal cortex as the site of action of physostigmine in nbM-lesioned rats.
- Effect of physostigmine on memory consolidation and retrieval processes in intact and nucleus basalis-lesioned rats.
- Infusion of NMDA into the nucleus basalis of Meynert, frontal cortex or lateral ventricle in rats: effect on memory and cholinergic brain neurochemistry.
- Therapeutics of Alzheimer's disease for clinical and pre-clinical issues.
- Attenuation of nucleus basalis of Meynert lesion-induced cholinergic deficits by nerve growth factor.
- Interactions of forebrain cholinergic and somatostatinergic systems in the rat.
- Clinical correlates of platelet prostaglandin receptor subsensitivity in schizophrenia.
- Pharmacological properties of histamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase from mammalian brain.
- Pharmacological properties of histamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase from mammalian brain.
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