Dr. Carl I Cohen MD
Geriatric Psychiatrist | Geriatric Psychiatry
450 Clarkson Ave Box 1203 Brooklyn NY, 11203About
Dr. Carl Cohen is a geriatric psychiatrist practicing in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Cohen specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, particularly in older adults. Patients who visit geriatric psychiatrists typically look for help with problems like memory loss, depression, difficulty coping with change, stress, dementia, anxiety and more. Older adults may also experience emotional distress after being diagnosed with a disease as well. Dr. Cohen helps patients after a comprehensive diagnostic exam so the root of their problems can be treated.
Education and Training
University At Buffalo SUNY School Of Med and Biomedical Sciences Buffalo Ny 1971
SUNY Downstate Medical Center College Of Medicine 1971
University at Buffalo State University of New York School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 1971
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Geriatric Psychiatry
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Impact of training dementia caregivers in sensitivity to nonverbal emotion signals.
- Poverty, social problems, and serious mental illness.
- Economic grand rounds: social inequality and health: will psychiatry assume center stage?
- Ethnic variation in the impact of negative affect and emotion inhibition on the health of older adults.
- Schizophrenia. Management issues that complicate care of older persons.
- Mental health problems in assisted living residents. The physician's role in treatment and staff education.
- The utility of mandatory depression screening of dementia patients in nursing homes.
- Assessing quality of life in older persons with schizophrenia.
- Racial differences in paranoid ideation and psychoses in an older urban population.
- Motor dysfunction in dementias.
- Comparison of users and non-users of mental health services among depressed, older, urban African Americans.
- Racial differences in syndromal and subsyndromal depression in an older urban population.
- The prevalence of phobia and its associated factors in a multiracial aging urban population.
- Impact of early lifetime trauma in later life: depression among Holocaust survivors 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
- The prevalence of anxiety and associated factors in a multiracial sample of older adults.
Areas of expertise and specialization
Faculty Titles & Positions
- Distinguished Service Professor SUNY Downstate Medical Center 2009 - 2017
Awards
- Psychiatrist of the Year 1991 American Association of Community Psychiatrists
- • Exemplary Psychiatrist Award 2003 National Alliance of the Mentally Ill
Treatments
- Bipolar Disorder
- Anxiety
- Dementia
- Adjustment Disorder
- Schizophrenia
Professional Memberships
- American Psychiatric Association
- American Association of Geriatric Psychiatry
Charities and Philanthropic Endeavors
- St Francis Friends of the Poor
Areas of research
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