Posted by Adam on September 1, 2001, at 10:00:52
In reply to Re: MAOIs and safety » Adam, posted by SLS on August 31, 2001, at 22:31:09
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> Hey Adam - I didn't know you were a NIMH alumnus!
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Yes, I am. In brief, I didn't know I had an OCD-spectrum disorder until I just happened to go to a summer lecture on OCD given by Dr. Judith Rapoport (yes, THE Dr. Judith Rapoport). Talk about serendipity. After the lecture, which you might say "rocked my world", I grabbed my NIH directory and rang her up (I was working in the NCI at the time).> Who were your doctors?
Dr. Rapoport directed me to a study being run by Dr. Susan Swedo. It was a non-drug study, so my work with Dr. Swedo was limited largely to various diagnostic tests and the imaging (MRI, PET). She was great to talk to, and also gave me a drug consult after I left the study. Dr. Rapoport and Dr. Swedo are about as big as you can get in the area of child psychiatry. Dr. Rapoport needs no introduction; Dr. Swedo's big focus was psychiatric disorders and PANDAS, for which she is duly famous. I guess the experience of talking and working with them set my bar kind of high.
During the study, most of my nitty-gritty time was spent with a psychologist, Dr. Charles Mansueto of Silver Spring, MD, who specialized in anxiety disorders and used behavioral Tx to treat them. Torture, but the best psychotherapeutic experience of my life, when all was said and done.
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> I was in the Clinical Pharmacology department on the 4th floor (4-West). Bill Potter headed up the department and Mark Schmidt was my primary doctor.
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> Were you in Biological Psychiatry with Robert Post? While I was a patient, Ketter, Pazzaglia, George, and Marangall were there. Each of them have since gone on to major universities.
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> Just curious.
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> - Scott
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