Dr. William Vaughn Mccall MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
505 Parnassus Ave # M-1202 San Francisco CA, 94143About
Dr. William Mccall is a psychiatrist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Mccall is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Mccall diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Mccall 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. Mccall 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- Geriatric Psychiatry
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Novel electrode placements: time to reassess.
- Pretreatment differences in specific symptoms and quality of life among depressed inpatients who do and do not receive electroconvulsive therapy: a hypothesis regarding why the elderly are more likely to receive ECT.
- Effects of mood and age on quality of life in depressed inpatients.
- Subjective measurement of insomnia and quality of life in depressed inpatients.
- Titrated moderately suprathreshold vs fixed high-dose right unilateral electroconvulsive therapy: acute antidepressant and cognitive effects.
- Seizure threshold rise during electroconvulsive therapy in schizophrenic patients.
- Electroconvulsive therapy is associated with superior symptomatic and functional change in depressed patients after psychiatric hospitalization.
- The outcome of 369 ECT consultations.
- Social support increases in the year after inpatient treatment of depression.
- A psychiatric perspective on insomnia.
- Reliability of telepsychiatry assessments: subjective versus observational ratings.
- Electroconvulsive therapy in the era of modern psychopharmacology.
- Increased physician-reported sleep apnea: the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.
- Proxy validation of patient self-reports of ADL and IADL function before and after electroconvulsive therapy.
- Seizure augmentation in ECT.
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