Dr. Gunvant K Thaker M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
55 Wade Ave Catonsville MD, 21228About
Dr. Gunvant Thaker is a psychiatrist practicing in Catonsville, MD. Dr. Thaker is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Thaker diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Thaker 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. Thaker treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Medical College Baroda 1977
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Smooth pursuit eye movements to extra-retinal motion signals: deficits in patients with schizophrenia.
- Saccadic eye movement abnormalities in relatives of patients with schizophrenia.
- Defining the schizophrenia phenotype.
- Neurophysiological markers of vulnerability to schizophrenia: sensitivity and specificity of specific quantitative eye movement measures.
- Current progress in schizophrenia research. Search for genes of schizophrenia: back to defining valid phenes.
- Current progress in schizophrenia research. Eye movement abnormalities in schizophrenia: what is the nature of the deficit?
- Current progress in schizophrenia research: sensory gating deficit in schizophrenia: is the nicotinic alpha-7 receptor implicated?
- Effects of ketamine on leading saccades during smooth-pursuit eye movements may implicate cerebellar dysfunction in schizophrenia.
- Current progress in schizophrenia research: cognitive phenotypes of schizophrenia: attention.
- The effects of nicotine on specific eye tracking measures in schizophrenia.
- Current progress in schizophrenia research: application of emerging "gene chip" technologies in search of genes.
- Components of the smooth pursuit function in deficit and nondeficit schizophrenia.
- Schizophrenia, V: risk markers.
- Effects of nicotine on leading saccades during smooth pursuit eye movements in smokers and nonsmokers with schizophrenia.
Treatments
- Bipolar Disorder
- Anxiety
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (adhd)
- Adjustment Disorder
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