Dr. Edwin Fuller Torrey
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
6204 Ridge Dr Bethesda MD, 20816About
Dr. Edwin Torrey is a psychiatrist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Torrey is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Torrey diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Torrey 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. Torrey treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Triplets with schizophrenia.
- Left behind: the seriously mentally ill in the managed care era. Interview by Robin Dorman.
- Medication compliance.
- Forced medication is part of the cure.
- Evaluation of superior vermal Purkinje cell placement in mental illness.
- The cost of not treating serious mental illness.
- Epidemiological comparison of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
- Molecular characterization of a MSRV-like sequence identified by RDA from monozygotic twin pairs discordant for schizophrenia.
- Can psychiatry learn from tuberculosis treatment?
- The "new drugs" and the research we haven't done.
- Endogenous retroviruses and schizophrenia.
- Some clients will never pursue treatment.
- Disease-specific alterations in frontal cortex brain proteins in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder. The Stanley Neuropathology Consortium.
- Community care and schizophrenia.
- Seasonal birth patterns of neurological disorders.
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