Dr. Ralph A Nixon M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
Nathan Kline Institute Orangeburg NY, 10962About
Dr. Ralph Nixon is a psychiatrist practicing in Orangeburg, NY. Dr. Nixon is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Nixon diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Nixon 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. Nixon treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Alzheimer's disease-related overexpression of the cation-dependent mannose 6-phosphate receptor increases Abeta secretion: role for altered lysosomal hydrolase distribution in beta-amyloidogenesis.
- Calpain activation in neurodegenerative diseases: confocal immunofluorescence study with antibodies specifically recognizing the active form of calpain 2.
- Calpain activity regulates the cell surface distribution of amyloid precursor protein. Inhibition of calpains enhances endosomal generation of beta-cleaved C-terminal APP fragments.
- P301L tauopathy: confocal immunofluorescence study of perinuclear aggregation of the mutated protein.
- Gene replacement in mice reveals that the heavily phosphorylated tail of neurofilament heavy subunit does not affect axonal caliber or the transit of cargoes in slow axonal transport.
- Calpain inhibitors: a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
- Alleles at the Nicastrin locus modify presenilin 1- deficiency phenotype.
- Myosin Va binding to neurofilaments is essential for correct myosin Va distribution and transport and neurofilament density.
- Defective neurofilament transport in mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a review.
- Rab5-stimulated up-regulation of the endocytic pathway increases intracellular beta-cleaved amyloid precursor protein carboxyl-terminal fragment levels and Abeta production.
- Setback for an Alzheimer's disease vaccine: lessons learned.
- App gene dosage modulates endosomal abnormalities of Alzheimer's disease in a segmental trisomy 16 mouse model of down syndrome.
- Calpain inhibitors, a treatment for Alzheimer's disease: position paper.
- The calpains in aging and aging-related diseases.
- Neurofilament transport in vivo minimally requires hetero-oligomer formation.
Awards
- Harvard University
- National Institutes of Health MERIT Award
- Alzheimer's Association Temple Foundation Discovery Award
- National Institute on Aging Academic Career Leadership Award
- American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Fellow
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