Dr. Martin Jerome Fialkov M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1201 63rd St Des Moines IA, 50311Rating
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About
Dr. Martin Fialkov is a psychiatrist practicing in Des Moines, IA. Dr. Fialkov is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Fialkov diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Fialkov 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. Fialkov treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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- Recent advances in alcohol withdrawal states.
- Recent advances in alcohol withdrawal states.
- Fostering permanency of children in out-of-home care: psycho-legal aspects.
- Training child psychiatrists in rural public mental health.
- Occult dementia--the confounding variable in the treatment of alcoholism.
- Occult dementia--the confounding variable in the treatment of alcoholism.
- An unusual case of the Capgras syndrome.
- An unusual case of the Capgras syndrome.
- Peregrination in the problem pediatric patient. The pediatric Münchhausen syndrome?
- Psychotropic drug effects contributing to psychiatric hospitalization of children: a preliminary study.
- Behavioral treatment of depression in a prepubertal child.
- Severe psychosomatic illness in children: effect on a pediatric ward's staff.
- Alcoholics and the emergency ward. Part I. Clinical characteristics.
- Alcoholics and the emergency ward. Part II. A one-year follow-up study.
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