Dr. Richard George Petty M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
2430 Tucker Dr Bldg A Loganville GA, 30052Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Richard Petty is a psychiatrist practicing in Loganville, GA. Dr. Petty is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Petty diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Petty 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. Petty treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Charing Cross & Westminster Medical Schools 1976
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Structural asymmetries of the human brain and their disturbance in schizophrenia.
- Prolactin and antipsychotic medications: mechanism of action.
- Weight loss with topiramate.
- Treatment of preexisting diabetes with olanzapine.
- Olanzapine treatment for patients with schizophrenia and substance abuse.
- The influence of hypoglycaemic agents on the growth and metabolism of human endothelial cells.
- Diabetes is associated with a high incidence of endothelial-binding antibodies which do not correlate with retinopathy, von Willebrand factor, angiotensin-converting enzyme or C-reactive protein.
- Olanzapine: a 5-year perspective.
- Cutaneous blood flow responses in the forearms of Raynaud's patients induced by local cooling and intradermal injections of CGRP and histamine.
- Long term effectiveness of photocoagulation for diabetic maculopathy.
- Endothelium--the axis of vascular health and disease.
- Stimulation of endothelial cell growth by sera from diabetic patients with retinopathy.
- Physiological changes in human transjejunal potential difference.
- Platelet aggregation, beta-blockers, and migraine.
- Double blind comparison of mefenamic acid and acetaminophen (paracetamol) in migraine.
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