Dr. Kirk David Denicoff M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
5411 W Cedar Ln Suite 207a Bethesda MD, 20814About
Dr. Kirk Denicoff is a psychiatrist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Denicoff is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Denicoff diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Denicoff 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. Denicoff treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
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Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Lamotrigine for the treatment of bipolar disorder: a clinical case series.
- Antidepressant discontinuation-related mania: critical prospective observation and theoretical implications in bipolar disorder.
- Association between lower serum free T4 and greater mood instability and depression in lithium-maintained bipolar patients.
- The increasing use of polypharmacotherapy for refractory mood disorders: 22 years of study.
- Special issues in trial design and use of placebo in bipolar illness.
- Open-label adjunctive topiramate in the treatment of bipolar disorders.
- Axis I psychiatric comorbidity and its relationship to historical illness variables in 288 patients with bipolar disorder.
- Emerging trends in the treatment of rapid cycling bipolar disorder: a selected review.
- Rate of switch in bipolar patients prospectively treated with second-generation antidepressants as augmentation to mood stabilizers.
- Correlates of overweight and obesity in 644 patients with bipolar disorder.
- Tiagabine in treatment refractory bipolar disorder: a clinical case series.
- High numbers of circulating activated T cells and raised levels of serum IL-2 receptor in bipolar disorder.
- Factors associated with suicide attempts in 648 patients with bipolar disorder in the Stanley Foundation Bipolar Network.
- Psychosis in bipolar disorder: phenomenology and impact on morbidity and course of illness.
- Risk of switch in mood polarity to hypomania or mania in patients with bipolar depression during acute and continuation trials of venlafaxine, sertraline, and bupropion as adjuncts to mood stabilizers.
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