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PRACTICE OVERVIEW:
Dr. David B. Adams is Board
Certified in Clinical Psychology (ABPP) and specializes in the
treatment of mood, anxiety, sexual, psychosomatic and somatoform disorders
in adults.
In addition to his private Atlanta practice, Dr. Adams consults
nationally to physicians, nurses, attorneys, employers, insurers, police
departments, school systems, risk-management organizations and
rehabilitations centers
regarding the psychological factors involved in chronic pain, work-related injury, disability,
depression, anxiety and sexual dysfunction. Dr. Adams
biography and
curriculum vitae are available as
downloads.
He is Fellow of the American Academy
of Clinical Psychology, a Fellow of the Academy of
Psychosomatic Medicine and a Fellow of the American
Psychological Association and it's Division of Psychologists
in Independent Practice, Division of Psychotherapy;
Society of Clinical Psychology, as well as the American Academy of Pain Management and
the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine.
Dr. Adams is
a Distinguished Practitioner of the National Academy of Practice in
Psychology, a member of the
American Psychosomatic Society,
the Association of Medicine and
Psychiatry, a platinum member of
the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology
and holds a Certificate of Professional Qualifications from the
Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.
He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, and
holds two degrees from the University of Alabama with a postdoctoral
fellowship from the Institute of
Clinical Training of the
Devereux Foundation (Philadelphia).
Dr. Adams
has served on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology,
Psychotherapy Bulletin, International Journal of Medical
Psychotherapy, and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice and
Training and for many years was a medical psychotherapy-contributing
editor to the Psychotherapy
Bulletin. Dr. Adams is the
author of greater than sixty articles on the impact of psychological
functioning upon claims of disability, including the 1991 textbook
chapter on Diversification of Clinical Practice, the 1992
centennial article on Psychotherapy in the Medical & Surgical Arenas,
and two 1997 orthopedic textbook chapters in
Soft Tissue Injuries
(Windsor & Lox, Eds.) regarding
chronic pain and
psychopharmacology.
Since 1988, he has presented seminars and
regional workshops to physicians, nurse case managers, attorneys,
employers and insurers addressing the psychological aspects of physical
disease and injury. |
PSYCHOLOGICAL.COM
contains information about
psychological disorders
and
psychological treatment, as well
as accessing educational services, scheduling seminars, and joining his
discussion group.
Dr. Adams' clinical practice, Atlanta Medical Psychology, is
located in The Medical Quarters in Sandy Springs, in the north side
of Atlanta, at the junction of Scottish Rite, Northside and Saint
Joseph's Hospitals.
If you are concerned that
you may be suffering from a depressive disorder, try our
self-examination.
THIS WEEK'S FACTOID:
PTSD
Cause & Cure? 1. "Alterations in the neurosteroid biosynthetic pathways
of veterans of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan may be
associated with multiple symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)...serum
levels of the neurosteroid allopregnanolone were found to be inversely
associated with depression, anxiety, and pain symptoms, the greater the
symptom severity, the lower the allopregnanolone levels, resulting in
statistically significant inverse relationships. Limited Research Serum
levels of allopregnanolone were inversely associated with symptoms of
depression, anxiety, and low back pain. This is consistent with the
analgesic properties of allopregnanolone. Improvements in resilience
were significantly correlated with elevations in the neurosteroid
pregnanolone in the group treated with the neurosteroid pregnenolone.
Total cholesterol levels were also decreased after treatment in the
pregnenolone group, but no improvement was found in total PTSD symptoms
or cognitive performance. ...improvements in Cluster D PTSD symptoms,
including irritability, sleep difficulty, and poor concentration, were
significantly correlated with increases in neurosteroids after treatment
with pregnenolone." American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP)
48th Annual Meeting: Abstract P-805.
2. "Researchers showed that by introducing new, safer information during
what is called the reconsolidation phase, it may be possible to
permanently change fear memories. This period may provide a "window of
opportunity" to rewrite emotional memories."
Whereas scientists used to think that once a memory was stored it was
fixed no matter how many times it was retrieved, we now think that every
time you retrieve a memory, it has to go through a new restorage
process, and that’s what we call reconsolidation.
Animal research shows that conditioned fear has a neural representation
localized in the amygdala. Extinction training during reconsolidation
could target the same molecular mechanisms. The research suggests that
the timing of specific therapeutic interventions may play a significant
role in their success. These results open up the possibility that timing
clinical interventions so that they occur while memories are susceptible
to being altered may result in more effective treatments." Nature.
December 9, 2009.
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Factoids) |
