Dr. Alisa Beth Busch M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
115 Mill St Belmont MA, 02478Rating
3/5
About
Dr. Alisa Busch is a psychiatrist practicing in Belmont, MA. Dr. Busch is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Busch diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Busch 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. Busch treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1994
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Seclusion and restraint: a review of recent literature.
- Behavioral health insurance parity for federal employees.
- The impact of parity on major depression treatment quality in the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program after parity implementation.
- Recent advances in mental health services research. Introduction.
- Impact of full mental health and substance abuse parity for children in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
- Quality of care in a Medicaid population with bipolar I disorder.
- Bipolar-I depression outpatient treatment quality and costs in usual care practice.
- Bipolar-I patient characteristics associated with differences in antimanic medication prescribing.
- Antidepressant reformulations: who uses them, and what are the benefits?
- Longitudinal racial/ethnic disparities in antimanic medication use in bipolar-I disorder.
- The rise and fall of gabapentin for bipolar disorder: a case study on off-label pharmaceutical diffusion.
- Changes in guideline-recommended medication possession after implementing Kendra's law in New York.
- New Jersey's efforts to improve postpartum depression care did not change treatment patterns for women on medicaid.
- Racial and ethnic disparities in postpartum depression care among low-income women.
- Overuse of antidepressants in a nationally representative adult patient population in 2005.
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