Dr. Carol A. Mathews M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
401 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143Rating
5/5
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Dr. Carol Mathews is a psychiatrist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Mathews is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Mathews diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Mathews 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. Mathews treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1992
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV SCH OF MED 1992
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The effect on diagnostic rates of assigning patients to ethnically focused inpatient psychiatric units.
- The effect on treatment outcomes of assigning patients to ethnically focused inpatient psychiatric units.
- CNTNAP2 is disrupted in a family with Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and
- Meta-analysis of the association between the catecholamine-O-methyl-transferase gene and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Results of a SNP genome screen in a large Costa Rican pedigree segregating for
- Anxiety symptoms and perceived performance in medical students.
- A comparative study of obsessive-compulsive disorder in Costa Rica and the United States.
- Latent class analysis of gilles de la tourette syndrome using comorbidities: clinical and genetic implications.
- Clinical phenomenology and phenotype variability in Tourette syndrome.
- Symptom dimensions in OCD: item-level factor analysis and heritability estimates.
- Copy number variation in Tourette syndrome: another case of neurodevelopmental generalist genes?
- ADHD prevalence and association with hoarding behaviors in childhood-onset OCD.
- Latent class analysis of the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale symptoms in obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Cognitive functioning in individuals with severe compulsive hoarding behaviors and late life depression.
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) plasma levels in drug-naïve OCD patients are lower than those in healthy people, but are not lower than those in drug-treated OCD patients.
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