Dr. Harold W. Goforth M.D.
Pain Management Specialist | Interventional Pain Medicine
Duke University Medical Center Trent Drive; Box 330 Durham NC, 27710Rating
3/5
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Dr. Harold Goforth practices Pain Medicine in Durham, NC. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Goforth serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN- Geriatric Psychiatry
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Improvement in behaviour and attention in an autistic patient treated with ziprasidone.
- Quantitative electroencephalography in frontotemporal dementia with methylphenidate response: a case study.
- Chronic interictal psychosis responsive to aripiprazole.
- Partial Kluver-Bucy syndrome: two cases.
- Rapid relief of severe major depressive disorder by use of preoperative ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy.
- GABA(A) versus GABA(B) in catatonia.
- Catatonic signs in medical and psychiatric catatonias.
- Catatonia due to Thalamic Degeneration: A Case Report.
- Comorbid HIV encephalopathy and cocaine use as a risk factor for new-onset seizure disorders.
- Effects of antipsychotic medications on sleep in schizophrenia.
- Electroconvulsive therapy for severe major depressive disorder after orthotopic liver transplantation.
- Low-dose doxepin for the treatment of insomnia: emerging data.
- Neurologic aspects of drug abuse.
- The pharmacologic management of insomnia in patients with HIV.
- Serotonin syndrome in a chronic-pain patient receiving concurrent methadone, ciprofloxacin, and venlafaxine.
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