Dr. Stephen Irwin Deutsch M.D.
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
825 Fairfax Ave Suite 710 Norfolk VA, 23507About
Dr. Stephen Deutsch is a psychiatrist practicing in Norfolk, VA. Dr. Deutsch is a medical doctor specializing in the care of mental health patients. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Deutsch diagnoses and treats mental illnesses. Dr. Deutsch 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. Deutsch treats conditions like depression, anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, bipolar disorders, personality disorders, insomnia, ADD and other mental illnesses.
Education and Training
New York University School of Medicine 1977
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Specific cognitive deficits in neurologic and psychiatric disease: targets for treatment.
- Nefazodone in the adjunctive therapy of schizophrenia: an open-label exploratory study.
- Topiramate improves deficit symptoms in a patient with schizophrenia when added to a stable regimen of antipsychotic medication.
- Adjuvant galantamine administration improves negative symptoms in a patient with treatment-refractory schizophrenia.
- Interaction of stress and strain on glutamatergic neurotransmission: relevance to schizophrenia.
- Fluoxetine's effects on cognitive performance in patients with traumatic brain injury.
- Implicit learning of visuospatial sequences in schizophrenia.
- Toward a neuropsychology of memory in schizophrenia.
- GABA-active steroids: endogenous modulators of GABA-gated chloride ion conductance.
- Effect of a low-tryptophan diet as an adjuvant to conventional neuroleptic therapy in schizophrenia.
- Evidence of impaired smooth pursuit eye movement performance in crack cocaine users.
- Paradoxical effect of flurazepam.
- Glycinergic interventions potentiate the ability of MK 801 to raise the threshold voltage for tonic hindlimb extension in mice.
- The "Yoking" of glutamatergic brain mechanisms involved in controlling brain neuronal excitability and psychosis to brain mechanisms involved in appetite regulation: a new hypothesis on the origin of psychosis.
- Behavioral consequences of methyllycaconitine in mice: a model of alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor deficiency.
Treatments
- Bipolar Disorder
- Psychosis
- Dementia
- Schizophrenia
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