Dr. Thomas H. Lampe M.D.
Geriatric Psychiatrist | Geriatric Psychiatry
Va Puget Sound Hcs American Lake Division 116poc Tacoma WA, 98493Rating
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Dr. Thomas Lampe is a geriatric psychiatrist practicing in Tacoma, WA. Dr. Lampe 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. Lampe helps patients after a comprehensive diagnostic exam so the root of their problems can be treated.
Education and Training
In Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis In 1977
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Geriatric Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A clinical pathological comparison of three families with frontotemporal dementia and identical mutations in the tau gene (P301L)
- Interrater reliability of Alzheimer's disease diagnosis.
- Neuroendocrine responses to physostigmine in Alzheimer's disease.
- Characteristics of familial Alzheimer's disease in nine kindreds of Volga German ancestry.
- Cerebrospinal fluid vasopressin, oxytocin, somatostatin, and beta-endorphin in Alzheimer's disease.
- Very low-dose neuroleptic treatment in two patients with agitation associated with Alzheimer's disease.
- Dementia and antipsychotic drugs.
- Absence of linkage of chromosome 21q21 markers to familial Alzheimer's disease.
- A trial of dextroamphetamine in patients with involutional agitated depression.
- Lack of detectable radiation hypersensitivity in lymphoblastoid cells from multiple pedigrees of familial Alzheimer disease.
- Wide range in age of onset for chromosome 1--related familial Alzheimer's disease.
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