Links: The Mind Brain Medicine Forum PsychiatryNeurology’s Blog CV Annotated Psychiatry, Neurology and General Medicine Resources on the Web (phased out, now The Mind Brain Medicine Forum Clinical Questionnaires Video WebCast: Panic Disorder, Separation Anxiety, Suffocation False Alarms,and Endogenous Opioids Panic Disorder Review Childhood Trauma in Film Past Conferences Program Notes on Unzere Kinder Upcoming Events	Maurice Preter, MD Psychiatry, Neurology, Neuropsychiatry Psychotherapy Forensic Neuropsychiatry Board Certified in Neurology (ABPN, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) Board Certified in Psychiatry (ABPN, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology) Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Adj. Associate Professor of Neurology, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center 1160 Fifth Avenue, Suite 112 New York, NY 10029 Telephone and Fax: +1-212-713-5336 A practice integrating patient-centered intensive listening with high-tech medicine that is dedicated to the diagnosis and optimal, individualized treatment of psychiatric, neuropsychiatric and neurological conditions Home visits and house calls Psychiatric and neurological evaluation and treatment in English, French, German and Yiddish Independent Medical Expert (IME) review in English, French, German International medical consultations No corporate “managed care”, for-profit insurance, or Medicare participation (click to read more)
	Psychiatry Focus: Panic Disorder Medical problems that cause psychological distress Bipolar Disorder/Manic-Depressive Illness/Rapid cycling Post-Traumatic Stress/PTSD Prolonged grief reactions after loss Personality disorders Clarification of diagnosis Psychopharmacology. Former associate of Klein, Liebowitz Psychiatric Associates, a leading psychopharmacology practice in New York City Combination of medication treatment with psychotherapy to reduce medication need and unwanted medication effects Neurology Focus: Epilepsy and mood disturbance Migraine headaches Chronic pain Parkinson Disease and other Movement Disorders Integrative, multi-specialty treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) Clarification of diagnosis Forensic Focus/Independent Medical Examinations (IME): Traumatic Brain Injury, Cognitive impairment and PTSD Severe psychological stress and posttraumatic stress disorder Emotional and Physical Damages Conscious Pain And Suffering Public Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene Law Retention and Commitment Treatment Over Objection Mental Capacity Leniency/Downward departure _______________________________________________________________________ On Dr. Maurice Preter Maurice Preter, MD is Board certified in two specialties: neurology and psychiatry. He divides his professional time between patient care, forensic medical/neuropsychiatric consulting, research in neuropsychiatry, and teaching. He serves as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry on the faculty of Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Preter received his training in both Neurology and Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (where he also had extensive psychotherapy and family therapy training), and his medical education at the University of Munich, the University of Paris, France, and at Harvard Medical School. His main interest lies in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions that overlap between psychiatry, neurology, and general medicine: e.g. epilepsy with co-morbid mood disorders, the differential diagnosis of non-epileptic seizures, Parkinson disease with depression or dementia, psychosomatic disorders. Integrating European and American medical approaches, he practices psychiatry using an individualized combination of psychopharmacological and alternative/complimentary medications, and psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy, with a focus on the diagnosis and treatment of depression and bipolar disorder (manic depression), panic disorder, psychological trauma, grief reactions after loss, and personality disorders. Dr. Preter has buprenorphine certification to practice medication-assisted opioid addiction therapy with Subutex® (buprenorphine hydrochloride) and Suboxone® tablets (buprenorphine hydrochloride and naloxone hydrochloride). This medication treatment can be enhanced with individual psychotherapy. In neurology, the practice focuses on difficult to treat migraine, headaches, and other chronic pain syndromes. Integrative, multi-specialty diagnosis and treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED), one of the most underdiagnosed, and most treatable conditions in neuropsychiatric medicine. Key is the individualized, holistic, neuroscientifically based assessment of the patient, and the use of treatments drawing on pharmacological, alternative/complimentary, and adjuvant modalities. Dr. Preter is a member of the Task Force on Pain Management, and the Task Force on Anxiety Disorders and OCD, of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry. Dr. Preter teaches professional audiences nationally and internationally (frequently using the medium of full-length movie features) and has appeared on educational television and radio programs on several neuropsychiatric subjects, among them psychological trauma, dementia, depression of old age, and the safe use of neuropsychopharmacologic medication. Dr. Preter, a recipient of the Fellowship awards of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, is a member of Independent Doctors of New York (IDNY), a group of Manhattan physicians who practice medicine independent of corporate “managed care”.
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