Professor, Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine
Psychiatry
Dr. Ira M. Lesser, MD
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Lesser is an expert in the field of Psychiatry. He went to medical school at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received awards:"Top Doctors:LA Area", "Top Doctors:Southern California" and "Super Doctor". Doctor Ira M. Lesser, MD has written publications. He has 98 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Relationship of age, age at onset, and sex to depression in older adults.'
Publications
- Glue, Grease, and Container: A Simplified Take on Administrative Skills.
- Presence of Antibrain Antibodies in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Secondary to Pineal Gland Germinoma: A Case Report.
- Adherence to Antidepressant Combinations and Monotherapy for Major Depressive Disorder: A CO-MED Report of Measurement-Based Care.
- Increase in work productivity of depressed individuals with improvement in depressive symptom severity.
- Response to citalopram is not associated with SLC6A4 genotype in African-Americans and Caucasians with major depression.
- Effect of antidepressant medication treatment on suicidal ideation and behavior in a randomized trial: an exploratory report from the Combining Medications to Enhance ...
- Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Depression Treatment Outcomes: The CO-MED Trial.
- Randomized comparison of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (escitalopram) monotherapy and antidepressant combination pharmacotherapy for major depressive disorder...
- Combining Medications to Enhance Depression Outcomes (CO-MED): Acute and Long-Term Outcomes of a Single-Blind Randomized Study.
- Support and undermining in interpersonal relationships are associated with symptom improvement in a trial of antidepressant medication.
- Ethnic differences in antidepressant response: a prospective multi-site clinical trial.
- Income and attrition in the treatment of depression: a STAR*D report.
- An open pilot study of the combination of escitalopram and bupropion-SR for outpatients with major depressive disorder.
- Ethnicity/race and outcome in the treatment of depression: results from STAR*D.
- Insured and non-insured depressed outpatients: how do they compare?
- Characteristics of insured and noninsured outpatients with depression in STAR(*)D.
- The role of complex emotions in inconsistent diagnoses of schizophrenia.
- Inconsistencies in diagnosis and symptoms among bilingual and English-speaking Latinos and Euro-Americans.
- Do atypical features affect outcome in depressed outpatients treated with citalopram?
- Depression outcomes of Spanish- and english-speaking Hispanic outpatients in STAR*D.
- Effect of age at onset on the course of major depressive disorder.
- Preadult onset vs. adult onset of major depressive disorder: a replication study.
- Carbamazepine and desipramine: a toxic reaction.
- Effects of cigarette smoking history on cognitive functioning in healthy older adults.
- Depression, hypertension, and medical outcome in elderly subjects.
- Clinical presentations of depression in African American and white outpatients.
- Apathy and cognitive performance in older adults with depression.
- Ethnic differences in clinical presentation of depression in adult women.
- Performance of older depressed patients on two cognitive malingering tests: false positive rates for the Rey 15-item memorization and dot counting tests.
- Sequence of improvement in agoraphobia with panic attacks.
- Late-onset schizophrenia. Studying clinical validity.
- Which veterans go to VA psychiatric hospitals for care: a pilot study.
- Cognitive functioning in a mildly to moderately depressed geriatric sample: relationship to chronological age.
- Brain injury and cognitive function in late-onset psychotic depression.
- A combined crisis-outpatient clinic: a better system for delivery of psychiatric care?
- Beyond medications: group therapy for the chronic psychiatric patient.
- Psychiatric urgency as assessed by patients and their therapists at an adult outpatient clinic.
- A review of the alexithymia concept.
- Alexithymia: examining the development of a psychological concept.
- Attitudes toward medication change among chronically impaired psychiatric patients.
- Ego identity status and the intimacy versus isolation crisis of young adulthood.
- Electroencephalographic study of nighttime panic attacks.
- A critique of contributions to the alexithymia symposium.
- Current concepts in psychiatry. Alexithymia.
- A modified dexamethasone suppression test for endogenous depression.
- Past and current thyroid function in subjects with panic disorder.
- Neuroendocrine aspects of primary endogenous depression. II. Serum dexamethasone concentrations and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal cortical activity as determinants of...
- Neuroendocrine aspects of primary endogenous depression. III. Cortisol secretion in relation to diagnosis and symptom patterns.
- Neuroendocrine aspects of primary endogenous depression. I. Cortisol secretory dynamics in patients and matched controls.
- Diagnostic considerations in panic disorders.
- Delusions in a patient treated with histamine H2 receptor antagonists.
- Serum dexamethasone concentrations in endogenous depressives before, during, and after treatment: preliminary observations.
- Late-life psychosis and modern neuroimaging.
- Secondary depression in panic disorder and agoraphobia. I. Frequency, severity, and response to treatment.
- Alprazolam in panic disorder and agoraphobia: results from a multicenter trial. I. Efficacy in short-term treatment.
- Neuroendocrine aspects of primary endogenous depression--IV. Pituitary-thyroid axis activity in patients and matched control subjects.
- Differential effects of scopolamine on nocturnal cortisol secretion, sleep architecture, and REM latency in normal volunteers: relation to sleep and cortisol abnormali...
- Ethnicity and psychopharmacology.
- Serum haloperidol and desipramine concentrations and the treatment of psychotic depression: two case reports.
- Brain white-matter lesions and psychosis.
- Secondary depression in panic disorder and agoraphobia. II. Dimensions of depressive symptomatology and their response to treatment.
- Neuroendocrine aspects of primary endogenous depression VIII. Pituitary-gonadal axis activity in male patients and matched control subjects.
- Neuroendocrine aspects of primary endogenous depression. V. Serum prolactin measures in patients and matched control subjects.
- Neuroendocrine aspects of primary endogenous depression. X: Serum growth hormone measures in patients and matched control subjects.
- Brain lesions and cognitive function in late-life psychosis.
- Frontal lobe degeneration: clinical, neuropsychological, and SPECT characteristics.
- Neuroendocrine aspects of primary endogenous depression. XI. Serum melatonin measures in patients and matched control subjects.
- Neuropsychological correlates of white-matter lesions in healthy elderly subjects. A threshold effect.
- A fixed-dose study of alprazolam 2 mg, alprazolam 6 mg, and placebo in panic disorder.
- Late-onset psychotic disorder, not otherwise specified: clinical and neuroimaging findings.
- Alexithymia and the ECA study.
- Alprazolam plasma concentrations and treatment response in panic disorder and agoraphobia.
- Alexithymia in somatizing patients.
- Apolipoprotein-E and white-matter hyperintensities in late-life depression.
- REM sleep in depression is influenced by ethnicity.
- Clinical and neuroradiologic features associated with chronicity in late-life depression.
- Relationship of age, age at onset, and sex to depression in older adults.
- Behavioral phenomenology in Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and late-life depression: a retrospective analysis.
- Frontotemporal dementia: treatment response to serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors.
- Differential response of rapid eye movement sleep to cholinergic blockade by scopolamine in currently depressed, remitted, and normal control subjects.
- Neuropsychological deficits among older depressed patients with predominantly psychological or vegetative symptoms.
- Cognition and white matter hyperintensities in older depressed patients.
- Brain imaging, antidepressants, and ethnicity: preliminary observations.
- The evolving science of pharmacogenetics: clinical and ethnic perspectives.
- Bilateral cerebral pathology and the genesis of delusional misidentification.
- Wisconsin Card Sorting Test performance in healthy, older adults: relationship to age, sex, education, and IQ.
- Frontal lobe cognitive functions in aging: methodologic considerations.
- Progressive right frontotemporal degeneration: clinical, neuropsychological and SPECT characteristics.
- Late-onset depression with white matter lesions.
- Brain imaging in late-life schizophrenia and related psychoses.
- Reduction of cerebral blood flow in older depressed patients.
- Base rates of "impaired" neuropsychological test performance among healthy older adults.
- Situational depression and the dexamethasone suppression test.
- Group treatment for chronic patients: educational and supervisory aspects.
- Has the rolling uterus finally gathered moss? Somatization and malingering of cognitive deficit in six cases of "toxic mold" exposure.
- What predicts attrition in second step medication treatments for depression?: a STAR*D Report.
- Identifying risk for attrition during treatment for depression.
Schools
University of Pittsburgh Main Campus
Harbor Genl Hospital
Harbor UCLA Med Center
Doctors Specialties
- Geriatric Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top Doctors:LA Area
- Top Doctors:Southern California
- Super Doctor
Education
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Harbor - UCLA Medical Center -
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hospital
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
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