Dr. Robert Bruce Lydiard MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
109 Bee St Charleston SC, 29425About
Dr. Robert Lydiard is a psychiatrist practicing in Charleston, SC. Dr. Lydiard is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Lydiard diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Lydiard 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. Lydiard treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Once-weekly dosing of fluoxetine in the maintenance of remission in panic disorder.
- Pharmacological treatment of anxiety in the medically ill patient.
- Continuing treatment of panic disorder after acute response: randomised, placebo-controlled trial with fluoxetine. The Fluoxetine Panic Disorder Study Group.
- Placebo-controlled trial of the CCK-B antagonist, CI-988, in panic disorder.
- Evaluation of the efficacy, safety and physiological effects of fluvoxamine in social phobia.
- Feasibility of using fMRI to study mothers responding to infant cries.
- Treatment of social phobia with the dopamine agonist pergolide.
- An overview of generalized anxiety disorder: disease state--appropriate therapy.
- Efficacy of venlafaxine extended-release capsules in nondepressed outpatients with generalized anxiety disorder: A 6-month randomized controlled trial.
- Therapeutic advances: paroxetine for the treatment of social anxiety disorder.
- Elevated plasma thymopoietin associated with therapeutic nonresponsiveness in major depression.
- Placebo-controlled study of gabapentin treatment of panic disorder.
- Social phobia: diagnosis and epidemiology, neurobiology and pharmacology, comorbidity and treatment.
- Bupropion-SR in treatment of social phobia.
- Social anxiety disorder: comorbidity and its implications.
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