Dr. Steven P. Hamilton M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
401 Parnassus Ave San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. Steven Hamilton is a psychiatrist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Hamilton is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Hamilton diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Hamilton 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. Hamilton treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Ca, Los Angeles, Ucla Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1995
University of California 1972
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Early-onset fearful panic attack: a possible prodrome of early-onset severe psychopathology.
- The early-onset fearful panic attack as a predictor of severe psychopathology.
- Generalizability and correlates of clinically derived panic subtypes in the population.
- Cigarette smoking and panic: the role of neuroticism.
- Lifetime comorbidity of antisocial personality disorder and anxiety disorders among adults in the community.
- Variants in estrogen-biosynthesis genes CYP17 and CYP19 and breast cancer risk: a family-based genetic association study.
- Sequence analysis of the serotonin transporter and associations with antidepressant response.
- A family with X-linked anophthalmia: exclusion of SOX3 as a candidate gene.
- Analysis of association between the serotonin transporter and antidepressant response in a large clinical sample.
- Large-scale SNP genotyping with canine buccal swab DNA.
- Schizophrenia candidate genes: are we really coming up blank?
- Pharmacokinetic genes do not influence response or tolerance to citalopram in the STAR*D sample.
- Association and linkage analysis of candidate genes GRP, GRPR, CRHR1, and TACR1 in panic disorder.
- Resequencing of serotonin-related genes and association of tagging SNPs to citalopram response.
- Genetic studies of drug response and side effects in the STAR*D study, part 1.
Treatments
- Anxiety
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