Dr. Jay Norman Giedd M.D.
Adolescent Psychiatrist | Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
12533 Grey Fox Ln Potomac MD, 20854About
Dr. Jay Giedd practices Child & Adolescent Psychiatry in Potomac, MD. Dr. Giedd 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. Giedd seeks to improve each patients quality of life.
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Progressive cortical change during adolescence in childhood-onset schizophrenia. A longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging study.
- Bipolar disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents.
- Morphological alteration of temporal lobe gray matter in dyslexia: an MRI study.
- Structural and functional brain development and its relation to cognitive development.
- Effects of image orientation on the comparability of pediatric brain volumes using three-dimensional MR data.
- Anatomical MRI of the developing human brain: what have we learned?
- Motion artifact in magnetic resonance imaging: implications for automated analysis.
- The epigenesis of planum temporale asymmetry in twins.
- Brain structural abnormalities in young children with autism spectrum disorder.
- Children with classic congenital adrenal hyperplasia have decreased amygdala volume: potential prenatal and postnatal hormonal effects.
- The anatomy of mentalization: a view from developmental neuroimaging.
- Structural magnetic resonance imaging of the adolescent brain.
- Prevalence of and risk factors for depressive symptoms among young adolescents.
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