Dr. Francine M Benes M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
115 Mill St Belmont MA, 02478About
Dr. Francine Benes is a psychiatrist practicing in Belmont, MA. Dr. Benes is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Benes diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Benes 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. Benes 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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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Evidence for altered trisynaptic circuitry in schizophrenic hippocampus.
- Localization of cells preferentially expressing GAD(67) with negligible GAD(65) transcripts in the rat hippocampus. A double in situ hybridization study.
- Effect of age and neuroleptics on tyrosine hydroxylase-IR in sector CA2 of schizophrenic brain.
- Alterations of neural circuitry within layer II of anterior cingulate cortex in schizophrenia.
- Acute administration of SCH23390 increases D(1) receptors on nonpyramidal neurons in rat mPFC.
- Emerging principles of altered neural circuitry in schizophrenia.
- Amygdalo-entorhinal inputs to the hippocampal formation in relation to schizophrenia.
- Convergence and plasticity of monoaminergic systems in the medial prefrontal cortex during the postnatal period: implications for the development of psychopathology.
- Two-dimensional versus three-dimensional cell counting: a practical perspective.
- Carlsson and the discovery of dopamine.
- Amygdalar activation alters the hippocampal GABA system: "partial" modelling for postmortem changes in schizophrenia.
- GABAergic interneurons: implications for understanding schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
- The density of pyramidal and nonpyramidal neurons in anterior cingulate cortex of schizophrenic and bipolar subjects.
- GluR5,6,7 subunit immunoreactivity on apical pyramidal cell dendrites in hippocampus of schizophrenics and manic depressives.
- Effects of pre- and postnatal corticosterone exposure on the rat hippocampal GABA system.
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