Dr. John M Petitto MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
1600 SW Archer Rd Gainesville FL, 32610About
Dr. John Petitto is a psychiatrist practicing in Gainesville, FL. Dr. Petitto is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Petitto diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Petitto 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. Petitto treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
Univ of Nc At Chapel Hill Sch of Med, Chapel Hill Nc 1987
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Impaired learning and memory and altered hippocampal neurodevelopment resulting from interleukin-2 gene deletion.
- Early social deprivation in nonhuman primates: long-term effects on survival and cell-mediated immunity.
- Interleukin-2 gene deletion produces a robust reduction in susceptibility to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in C57BL/6 mice.
- D(3) and D(2) dopamine receptor agonists differentially modulate isolation-induced social-emotional reactivity in mice.
- Cloning the full-length IL-2/15 receptor-beta cDNA sequence from mouse brain: evidence of enrichment in hippocampal formation neurons.
- Association of depression with viral load, CD8 T lymphocytes, and natural killer cells in women with HIV infection.
- Alterations in septohippocampal cholinergic neurons resulting from interleukin-2 gene knockout.
- IL-2 gene knockout affects T lymphocyte trafficking and the microglial response to regenerating facial motor neurons.
- Neurobehavioral changes resulting from recombinase activation gene 1 deletion.
- Neuropsychopharmacologic treatment of depression and other neuropsychiatric disorders in HIV-infected individuals.
- Prevalence, diagnosis, and pharmacological treatment of mood disorders in HIV disease.
- Relationship of object loss during development to hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function during major affective illness later in life.
- Abnormal diurnal variation in circulating natural killer cell phenotypes and cytotoxic activity in major depression.
- IL-2 deficiency results in altered septal and hippocampal cytoarchitecture: relation to development and neurotrophins.
- Changes in hippocampal IL-15, related cytokines, and neurogenesis in IL-2 deficient mice.
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