Dr. Fred R Volkmar MD
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
230 S Frontage Rd Child Study Center, New Haven CT, 06519About
Dr. Fred Volkmar practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in New Haven, CT. Dr. Volkmar 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. Volkmar seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Higher-functioning pervasive developmental disorders: rates and patterns of psychotropic drug use.
- Season of birth in autism: a fiction revisited.
- Lessons from secretin.
- The screening and diagnosis of autistic spectrum disorders.
- A normed study of face recognition in autism and related disorders.
- Diagnosed with autism about 6 month ago.
- Asperger's disorder.
- Verbal bias in recognition of facial emotions in children with Asperger syndrome.
- PDDNOS in DSM-IV.
- Brief report: Interrater reliability of clinical diagnosis and DSM-IV criteria for autistic disorder: results of the DSM-IV autism field trial.
- Practice parameter: screening and diagnosis of autism: report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society.
- Toward a developmental operational definition of autism.
- Pharmacological interventions in autism: theoretical and practical issues.
- Language regression in childhood.
- Diversity and challenges of child psychiatry.
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