
Dr. Steven Kalman Secunda M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1050 Baltimore Pike Springfield PA, 19064About
Dr. Steven Secunda is a psychiatrist practicing in Springfield, PA. Dr. Secunda is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Secunda diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Secunda 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. Secunda 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 1966
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lithium carbonate treatment of mania. Cerebrospinal fluid and urinary monoamine metabolites and treatment outcome.
- Sociodemographic and prior clinical course characteristics associated with treatment response in depressed patients.
- Diagnosis and treatment of mixed mania.
- Biochemical changes in depression.
- A study of electrolyte and biogenic amine metabolism in manic-depressive illness.
- A controlled study of the antidepressant effects of lithium carbonate.
- A method for the determination of sodium, potassium, magnesium and lithium
- The prediction of brain lithium concentrations from plasma or erythrocyte measures.
- Lithium excretion and therapeutic response.
- Intra-erythrocyte sodium and potassium in manic-depressive illness.
Treatments
- Bipolar Disorder
- Anxiety
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Practice At 1050 Baltimore Pike
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Nearby Providers
- Dr. Pamela Ralph M.D.1489 Baltimore Pike Springfield PA 19064
- Dr. William Joseph Hernz MD1050 Baltimore Pike Springfield PA 19064
- Dr. William Joseph Demedio M.D.46 GREENHILL RD SPRINGFIELD PA 19064
Nearest Hospitals
DELAWARE COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITALl
501 NORTH LANSDOWNE AVE DREXEL HILL PA 19026CROZER CHESTER MEDICAL CENTERl
ONE MEDICAL CENTER BOULEVARD UPLAND PA 19013RIDDLE MEMORIAL HOSPITALl
1068 WEST BALTIMORE PIKE MEDIA PA 19063