Dr. Ruth Dowling Bruun MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
127 E Main St Suite 106 Riverhead NY, 11901About
Dr. Ruth Bruun is a psychiatrist practicing in Riverhead, NY. Dr. Bruun is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Bruun diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Bruun 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. Bruun treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medicine Research, Pondicherry University 1968
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome: summary of clinical experience with 250 patients and suggested nomenclature for tic syndromes.
- A follow-up of 78 patients with Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome.
- Explosive outbursts in children with Tourette's disorder.
- An open-label study of the treatment efficacy of olanzapine for Tourette's disorder.
- Persistent dyskinesia in a patient receiving fluoxetine.
- Subtle and underrecognized side effects of neuroleptic treatment in children with Tourette's disorder.
- Differential diagnosis of Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome.
- Tourette's syndrome: summary of data on 34 patients.
- Gilles de la Tourette's syndrome. An overview of clinical experience.
- Clonidine treatment of Tourette syndrome.
- Dysphoric phenomena associated with haloperidol treatment of Tourette syndrome.
- A followup of eighty patients with Tourette's syndrome.
- Combined pharmacotherapy risk.
- Viral infection and tic exacerbation.
- Rage attacks in children and adolescents with Tourette's disorder: a pilot study.
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