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Psychiatry
Dr. Owen M. Wolkowitz, MD
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Owen Wolkowitz works in the field of Psychiatry. He researched medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine. University of Maryland School of Medicine has a rank of 37 in research and a 52 in primary care He received awards:"Regional Top Doctor" and "Super Doctor". Owen M. Wolkowitz, MD is also a published doctor. He has 101 paper published. The most recent paper is: Selective alteration of personality and social behavior by serotonergic intervention.
Publications
- Neuroscience-informed Auditory Training in Schizophrenia: A Final Report of the Effects on Cognition and Serum Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor.
- Telomere length is inversely correlated with urinary stress hormone levels in healthy controls but not in un-medicated depressed individuals - Preliminary findings.
- Telomerase activation as a possible mechanism of action for psychopharmacological interventions.
- Association of dimensional psychological health measures with telomere length in male war veterans.
- Global arginine bioavailability, a marker of nitric oxide synthetic capacity, is decreased in PTSD and correlated with symptom severity and markers of inflammation.
- Anxiety disorders and accelerated cellular ageing.
- PBMC telomerase activity, but not leukocyte telomere length, correlates with hippocampal volume in Major depression.
- Adverse childhood experiences and leukocyte telomere maintenance in depressed and healthy adults.
- Precuneal and amygdala spontaneous activity and functional connectivity in war-zone-related PTSD.
- Peripheral antioxidant markers are associated with total hippocampal and CA3/dentate gyrus volume in MDD and healthy controls-preliminary findings.
- Telomere length and cortisol reactivity in children of depressed mothers.
- Proinflammatory milieu in combat-related PTSD is independent of depression and early life stress.
- Altered cerebral perfusion in executive, affective, and motor networks during adolescent depression.
- Resting-State Functional Connectivity of Subgenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Depressed Adolescents.
- Spontaneous brain activity in combat related PTSD.
- Stress and telomere biology: A lifespan perspective.
- Good stress, bad stress and oxidative stress: Insights from anticipatory cortisol reactivity.
- Dysregulated diurnal cortisol pattern is associated with glucocorticoid resistance in women with major depressive Disorder.
- Dysregulated relationship of inflammation and oxidative stress in Major depression.
- Higher fasting glucose levels are associated with reduced circulating angiogenic cell migratory capacity among healthy individuals.
- Physical activity moderates effects of stressor-induced rumination on cortisol reactivity.
- Serum BDNF levels before treatment predict SSRI response in depression.
- Divergent trajectories of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial aging in Schizophrenia.
- Leukocyte telomere length in Major depression: correlations with chronicity, inflammation and oxidative stress--preliminary findings.
- Dynamics of telomerase activity in response to acute psychological stress.
- Depression gets old fast: do stress and depression accelerate cell aging?
- Glucocorticoids. Mood, memory, and mechanisms.
- Neurobiological and neuropsychiatric effects of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulfate (DHEAS).
- The "steroid dementia syndrome": an unrecognized complication of glucocorticoid treatment.
- Altering cortisol level does not change the pleasurable effects of methamphetamine in humans.
- Behavioral implications of lowering cholesterol levels: a double-blind pilot study.
- Does cellular aging relate to patterns of allostasis? An examination of basal and stress reactive HPA axis activity and telomere length.
- Of sound mind and body: depression, disease, and accelerated aging.
- Childhood Trauma Associated with Short Leukocyte Telomere Length in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
- Is serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor a biomarker for cognitive enhancement in Schizophrenia?
- Low serum IL-10 concentrations and loss of regulatory association between IL-6 and IL-10 in adults with Major depression.
- Analyses and comparisons of telomerase activity and telomere length in human T and B cells: insights for epidemiology of telomere maintenance.
- Serum brain-derived neurotrophic factor predicts responses to escitalopram in chronic posttraumatic stress Disorder.
- Greater endogenous estrogen exposure is associated with longer telomeres in postmenopausal women at risk for cognitive decline.
- Intensive meditation training, immune cell telomerase activity, and psychological mediators.
- The "steroid dementia syndrome": a possible model of human glucocorticoid neurotoxicity.
- When blue turns to grey: do stress and depression accelerate cell aging?
- Repeated psychological stress testing in stimulant-dependent patients.
- Cell aging in relation to stress arousal and cardiovascular disease risk factors.
- Chronic pregnenolone effects in normal humans: attenuation of benzodiazepine-induced sedation.
- Neurotransmitters, neurosteroids and neurotrophins: new models of the pathophysiology and treatment of depression.
- Dehydroepiandrosterone supplementation and bone turnover in middle-aged to elderly men.
- Double-blind antiglucocorticoid treatment in schizophrenia and schizoaffective Disorder: a pilot study.
- Benzodiazepines in Schizophrenia: prefrontal cortex atrophy predicts clinical response to alprazolam augmentation.
- The effects of clozapine on symptom reduction, neurocognitive function, and clinical management in treatment-refractory state hospital schizophrenic inpatients.
- Catecholamine response to methamphetamine is related to glucocorticoid levels but not to pleasurable subjective response.
- Pessimism correlates with leukocyte telomere shortness and elevated interleukin-6 in post-menopausal women.
- Marijuana: differential effects on right and left hemisphere functions in man.
- Measurement and interpretation of changes in memory in response to drug treatments.
- Selective effects of triazolam on memory.
- Suicidality and corticosteroid Psychosis.
- Suicide and aggression in Schizophrenia. Neurobiologic correlates.
- TRH test in schizophrenic patients and controls.
- The corticotropin-releasing hormone stimulation test in chronic Schizophrenia.
- Chronic corticosterone administration in rats: behavioral and biochemical evidence of increased central dopaminergic activity.
- Benzodiazepine sensitivity in normal human subjects.
- Development of differences in response latencies to right and left visual fields.
- Beneficial effects of nalmefene augmentation in neuroleptic-stabilized schizophrenic patients.
- Neuropsychiatric effects of anabolic steroids in male normal volunteers.
- Serotonergic intervention increases affiliative behavior in humans.
- Peripheral telomere length and hippocampal volume in adolescents with major depressive Disorder.
- Antiglucocorticoid treatments in psychiatry.
- Glucocorticoid medication, memory and steroid Psychosis in medical illness.
- Partial reversal of stress-induced behavioral sensitization to amphetamine following metyrapone treatment.
- Selective alteration of personality and social behavior by serotonergic intervention.
- Double-blind treatment of Major depression with dehydroepiandrosterone.
- Antiglucocorticoid treatment of depression: double-blind ketoconazole.
- Estrogen replacement therapy and cognitive decline in memory-impaired post-menopausal women.
- Treatment of depression with antiglucocorticoid drugs.
- Severity of depression in abstinent alcoholics is associated with monoamine metabolites and dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate concentrations.
- Cortisol levels predict cognitive impairment induced by electroconvulsive therapy.
- Antiglucocorticoid drugs in the treatment of depression.
- Selective reduction of N-acetylaspartate in medial temporal and parietal lobes in AD.
- Antidepressant and cognition-enhancing effects of DHEA in Major depression.
- Dexamethasone for depression.
- Human pharmacokinetics and tolerability of L-365,260, a novel cholecystokinin-B antagonist.
- Novel strategies for treatment-resistant depression.
- Quantitative electroencephalographic correlates of steroid administration in man.
- Rational polypharmacy in Schizophrenia.
- Ketoconazole administration in hypercortisolemic depression.
- Differences in CSF concentrations of thyrotropin-releasing hormone in depressed patients and normal subjects: negative findings.
- Prospective controlled studies of the behavioral and biological effects of exogenous corticosteroids.
- Steroid modulation of human memory: biochemical correlates.
- Prednisone decreases CSF somatostatin in healthy humans: implications for neuropsychiatric Illness.
- Long-lasting behavioral changes following prednisone withdrawal.
- High prevalence of visual hallucinations in research subjects with chronic Schizophrenia.
- Early parental loss and development of adult psychopathology.
- Effect of naloxone on food consumption in obesity.
- Pre- and post-dexamethasone plasma ACTH levels in depressed patients and normal controls.
- Longitudinal measurement of plasma homovanillic acid levels in schizophrenic patients. Correlation with Psychosis and response to neuroleptic treatment.
- Methylphenidate-induced cardiac arrhythmias.
- Diazepam-induced amnesia: a neuropharmacological model of an "organic amnestic syndrome".
- Biochemical alterations produced by neuroleptics in man: studies of plasma homovanillic acid in schizophrenic patients.
- Dexamethasone increases plasma HVA but not MHPG in normal humans.
- Self-destructive dermatoses.
Schools
University of Maryland At Baltimore Professional Schools
Stanford University School Med
National Institute Mental Health
Procedures Preformed
- Group Psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy and Psychophysiological Therapy (incl. Biofeedback)
Conditions Treated
- Anxiety
- Bipolar Disorder
- Dysthymia and Cyclothymia (Mood Disorders)
- Major Depressive Disorder
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Doctors Specialties
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- Super Doctor
Education
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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center -
Stanford University -
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Hospital
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San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center -
UCSF Medical Center
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