Dr. Loren Paul Petersen MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
2311 Skyline Dr Norfolk NE, 68701About
Dr. Loren Petersen is a psychiatrist practicing in Norfolk, NE. Dr. Petersen is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Petersen diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Petersen 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. Petersen treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Mn Med Sch-Minneapolis, Minneapolis Mn 1965
University of Minnesota Medical School 1965
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG- Maternal and Fetal Medicine
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Infant mortality: a cry for help.
- Diabetes in pregnancy: a review.
- Diabetes in pregnancy: a review.
- Current progress in obstetrics and gynecology: a series of 12 lectures. Lecture No. 2. Fetal heart rate monitoring.
- Current progress in obstetrics and gynecology: a series of 12 lectures. Lecture No. 2. Fetal heart rate monitoring.
- Endocrine assessment of high risk pregnancies.
- Endocrine assessment of high risk pregnancies.
- Preeclampsia.
- Preeclampsia.
- Medical staff: physicians seek new responses to mounting pressures.
- Medical staff: physicians seek new responses to mounting pressures.
- Distribution of serum selenium, copper, and zinc in normal human pregnancy.
- Post-traumatic coma during pregnancy.
- Post-traumatic coma during pregnancy.
- Predictability of gestational hypertension.
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