Psychiatry Center

Mental illness spans a wide range of disorders. While some disorders can be severe, even life‑threatening illnesses, many are fairly mild. Most mental disorders can be controlled through proper medication and other treatments, allowing patients to live full and productive lifestyles. Common disorders include:

Diagnosis and Treatment

Highly specialized training is required to diagnose and treat mental disorders. As a physician specially trained in mental disorders, a psychiatrist is fully qualified to prescribe medications, order laboratory tests and neuro-imaging, and conduct physical exams. After diagnosis, cost limitations imposed by most insurers mean the psychiatrist typically manages medication, with any counseling performed by social workers or psychologists.

We treat adult patients for a wide range mental illnesses, including addiction and emotional disorders. Every case begins with diagnosis and treatment by a psychiatrist, a physician qualified to understand, integrate, and treat the biological, psychological and social factors that influence mental health.

Combining neurology and psychiatry, neuropsychiatry works toward unified diagnoses and treatments of mental or behavioral disorders. Many of the neuroimaging diagnostic tools and techniques used routinely in our neurological practice are suited for neuropsychiatric diagnoses.

Confidentiality

To protect patients, their families and the public, New York state law requires a psychiatrist to notify proper authorities if a patient is homicidal or suicidal. Patient confidentiality does not apply in these circumstances.