Psychiatry and Neurology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Stony Brook, New York, United States of America
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Gabrielle A. Carlson, M.D., has been a professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1985. She founded and directed the division until 2013. She did her undergraduate training at Wellesley and subsequently obtained her MD degree from Cornell University Medical College. She did her adult psychiatry training at Washington University in St. Louis and at the National Institute of Mental Health. She completed a fellowship and research fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at UCLA where she subsequently taught on the faculty.
Dr. Carlson specializes in childhood psychopathology and psychopharmacology in general, and the subjects of childhood and adolescent depression and bipolar disorder, specifically. She has written over 300 papers and chapters on those subjects. Her research interests include phenomenology, long-term follow-up and treatment of young people with bipolar disorder, and the relationship between behavior disorders, like ADHD, developmental disorders, and mood disorders.
Dr. Carlson has served on many national committees including the DSM IV Task Force on Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders, Institute of Medicine committees, and various review committees for the National Institute of Mental Health. She has been named Best Doctors in America and New York, and Good Housekeepings Best Mental Health Experts.
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