Dr. Roger K Pitman MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
149 13th St Cny 149 Ptsd Researc Charlestown MA, 02129About
Dr. Roger Pitman is a psychiatrist practicing in Charlestown, MA. Dr. Pitman is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Pitman diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Pitman 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. Pitman treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Vt Coll of Med, Burlington Vt 1969
University of Vermont College of Medicine 1969
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Regional cerebral blood flow during script-driven imagery in childhood sexual abuse-related PTSD: A PET investigation.
- Physiologic reactivity to startling tones in women with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Neural activation during sexual and competitive arousal in healthy men.
- Five-year follow-up study of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Neurologic soft signs in chronic posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Auditory startle response in trauma survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder: a prospective study.
- Exaggerated amygdala response to masked facial stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder: a functional MRI study.
- De novo conditioning in trauma-exposed individuals with and without posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Activation of anterior paralimbic structures during guilt-related script-driven imagery.
- Cognitive processing of trauma cues in adults reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse.
- Psychophysiologic assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam nurse veterans who witnessed injury or death.
- Personality profiles, dissociation, and absorption in women reporting repressed, recovered, or continuous memories of childhood sexual abuse.
- Letter: More on dominance, Freud, and sex.
- False recognition in women reporting recovered memories of sexual abuse.
- Hippocampal diminution in PTSD: more (or less?) than meets the eye.
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