Dr. Oscar Gary Bukstein M.D.
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
3811 Ohara St Pittsburgh PA, 15213About
Dr. Oscar Bukstein practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Bukstein 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. Bukstein seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Education and Training
Univ of Tx Med Branch Galveston, Galveston Tx 1983
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Addiction Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Methylphenidate and behavior modification in children with ADHD and comorbid ODD or CD: main and incremental effects across settings.
- Disruptive behavior disorders and substance use disorders in adolescents.
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder symptomatology in adolescents with alcohol use disorder.
- Once-daily atomoxetine may reduce attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in children and adolescents.
- Maltreatment in psychiatrically hospitalized dually diagnosed adolescent substance abusers.
- Patterns of affective comorbidity in a clinical population of dually diagnosed adolescent substance abusers.
- Comparison between treatment completers and noncompleters among dually diagnosed substance-abusing adolescents.
- Clinical practices in the pharmacological treatment of comorbid psychopathology in adolescents with alcohol use disorders.
- Interventions in suicidal alcoholics.
- Satisfaction with treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
- Salient variables for treatment research of adolescent alcohol and other substance use disorders.
- Psychopathology in adolescent alcohol abuse and dependence.
- Practice parameter for the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents with substance use disorders.
- Therapeutic challenges of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder with substance use disorders.
- Regionally specific alterations in membrane phospholipids in children with ADHD: An in vivo 31P spectroscopy study.
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