Dr. Rajkumar Kiran Kalapatapu M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
4150 Clement St San Francisco Va Med San Francisco CA, 94121About
Dr. Rajkumar Kalapatapu is a psychiatrist practicing in San Francisco, CA. Dr. Kalapatapu is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Kalapatapu diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Kalapatapu 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. Kalapatapu treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Indiana University School of Medicine 2003
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- Assessment of fatigue in adults with disabilities.
- Update on neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia: antipsychotic use.
- Escitalopram treatment of stereotypic movement disorder in an adolescent with mitochondrial disorder and mental retardation.
- Aripiprazole treatment of psychosis in a child with posterior fossa retrocerebellar arachnoid cyst.
- Geriatric triple board residency or Post-Geriatrics Portal Project.
- Novel Objective Biomarkers of Alcohol Use: Potential Diagnostic and Treatment Management Tools in Dual Diagnosis Care.
- Using the Internet to assess perceptions of patients with borderline personality disorder: what do patients want in the DSM-V?
- Prescription use disorders in older adults.
- Substance use after participation in laboratory studies involving smoked cocaine self-administration.
- Effects of alcohol availability, access to alcohol, and naltrexone on self-reported craving and patterns of drinking in response to an alcohol-cue availability procedure.
- The subjective effects of cocaine: relationship to years of cocaine use and current age.
- APOE e4 genotype and cigarette smoking in adults with normal cognition and mild cognitive impairment: a retrospective baseline analysis of a national dataset.
- Relationship of age to impulsivity and decision making: a baseline secondary analysis of a behavioral treatment study in stimulant use disorders.
- Alcohol use biomarkers predicting cognitive performance: a secondary analysis in veterans with alcohol dependence and posttraumatic stress disorder.
- The anti-suicidal potential of buprenorphine: a case report.
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