Dr. Richard W Hudgens MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
24 S Kingshighway Blvd Saint Louis MO, 63108Rating
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Dr. Richard Hudgens is a psychiatrist practicing in Saint Louis, MO. Dr. Hudgens is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Hudgens diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Hudgens 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. Hudgens treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Washington Univ Sch Of Med- St Louis Mo 1956
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Letter: A physical symptom in bipolar episodes.
- Attitudes toward a medical career among students at the University of Virginia Medical School.
- PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENTS AT A TEACHING HOSPITAL: AN INQUIRY INTO REASONS FOR ADMISSION AND FACTORS PROMOTING CLINICAL CHANGE.
- PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT VS. THE DISPOSITIONAL FRAME OF REFERENCE AT A LARGE MILITARY HOSPITAL.
- VOLUNTARY PSYCHIATRIC CONSULTATION AS A FACTOR IN 'SPONTANEOUS' IMPROVEMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS.
- Isoproterenol inhibits the increase in microvascular membrane permeability produced by bradykinin.
- Increased skin lymph protein clearance after a 6-h arterial bradykinin infusion.
- Hypertonic saline resuscitates dogs in endotoxin shock.
- Effect of sidestream and mainstream smoke exposure on in vitro interferon-alpha/beta production by L-929 cells.
- Anorexia not the same as depression.
- The effect of smoke generation and manipulation variables on the cytotoxicity of mainstream and sidestream cigarette smoke to monolayer cultures of L-929 cells.
- A study of selected catecholamine metabolizing enzymes: a comparison of depressive suicides and alcoholic suicides with controls.
- [Mental health services in a developing country. Progress and obstacles in public psychiatric programs in Honduras].
- Mental health of political candidates: notes on Abraham Lincoln.
- The use of the term'undiagnosed psychiatric disorder'.
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