Dr. James Bayard Payton M.D.
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
64 Merrimon Ave Asheville NC, 28801About
Dr. James Payton practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Asheville, NC. Dr. Payton evaluates patients throughout childhood and adolescence using many different procedures, in order to determine what treatments must be carried out in order to properly assess their symptoms. Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists are trained and certified to administer psychotherapy, medication, and many other means of treatment. Dr. Payton seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
Univ of Cincinnati Coll of Med, Cincinnati Oh 1973
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neuropsychological functioning in nonmentally retarded autistic individuals.
- Overanxious disorder with FDPase deficiency and developmental disability.
- New perspectives in autism, Part II: The differential diagnosis and neurobiology of autism.
- New perspectives in autism, Part I: The clinical spectrum of autism.
- Children's reactions to loss of parent through violence.
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