Faculty Member, Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Internal Medicine
Dr. Richard J. Wurtman, MD
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Richard Wurtman practices Internal Medicine. He went to Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical college. Harvard Medical School has a rank of 1 in research and a 12 in primary care He received 2 awards: "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare" and "Elected Member". Richard J. Wurtman, MD is a published MD. He has 24 publications published. The most current publication "Evidence for the Existence of Pyrimidinergic Transmission in Rat Brain."
Publications
- Evidence for the Existence of Pyrimidinergic Transmission in Rat Brain.
- A nutrient combination that can affect synapse formation.
- Personalized medicine strategies for managing patients with Parkinsonism and cognitive deficits.
- Plasma choline concentration varies with different dietary levels of vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid in rats maintained on choline-adequate diets.
- Non-nutritional uses of nutrients.
- Nutritional modifiers of aging brain function: use of uridine and other phosphatide precursors to increase formation of brain synapses.
- Fibromyalgia and the complex regional pain syndrome: similarities in pathophysiology and treatment.
- Efficacy of a medical food in mild Alzheimer's disease: A randomized, controlled trial.
- Use of phosphatide precursors to promote synaptogenesis.
- Synapse formation and cognitive brain development: effect of docosahexaenoic acid and other dietary constituents.
- A roadmap for the prevention of dementia: the inaugural Leon Thal Symposium.
- Oral administration of circulating precursors for membrane phosphatides can promote the synthesis of new brain synapses.
- Oral L-glutamine increases GABA levels in striatal tissue and extracellular fluid.
- Chronic administration of UMP ameliorates the impairment of hippocampal-dependent memory in impoverished rats.
- Narcolepsy and the hypocretins.
- Cytidine and uridine increase striatal CDP-choline levels without decreasing acetylcholine synthesis or release.
- Genes, stress, and depression.
- Dietary CDP-choline supplementation prevents memory impairment caused by impoverished environmental conditions in rats.
- Dietary uridine-5'-monophosphate supplementation increases potassium-evoked dopamine release and promotes neurite outgrowth in aged rats.
- A Drosophila temperature-sensitive seizure mutant in phosphoglycerate kinase disrupts ATP generation and alters synaptic function.
- 5-Hydroxy-L-tryptophan suppresses food intake in food-deprived and stressed rats.
- Effects of normal meals rich in carbohydrates or proteins on plasma tryptophan and tyrosine ratios.
- Stress and the adrenocortical control of epinephrine synthesis.
Schools
Harvard Medical School
Doctors Specialties
- Internal Medicine
- Other
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Elected Member
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
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