Dr. Michael Joseph Sernyak M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
950 Campbell Ave Vact-Psychiatry Serv West Haven CT, 06516About
Dr. Michael Sernyak is a psychiatrist practicing in West Haven, CT. Dr. Sernyak is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Sernyak diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Sernyak 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. Sernyak treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson Medical College MD
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University 1987
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Benzodiazepine use in posttraumatic stress disorder among veterans with substance abuse.
- Impact of clozapine on completed suicide.
- Use of the Medication Event Monitoring System to estimate medication compliance in patients with schizophrenia.
- Impact of clozapine prescription on inpatient resource utilization.
- Prescribers' nonadherence to treatment guidelines for schizophrenia when prescribing neuroleptics.
- Use of system-wide outcomes monitoring data to compare the effectiveness of atypical neuroleptic medications.
- Undiagnosed hyperglycemia in clozapine-treated patients with schizophrenia.
- Risk adjustment in studies using administrative data.
- Economic grand rounds: systemwide costs associated with second-generation antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia.
- Predictors of antipsychotic medication change.
- Clinicians' reasons for antipsychotic coprescribing.
- Undiagnosed hyperglycemia in patients treated with atypical antipsychotics.
- Metabolic monitoring for patients treated with antipsychotic medications.
- Implementation of monitoring and management guidelines for second-generation antipsychotics.
- Identifying metabolic risks with antipsychotics and monitoring and management strategies.
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