Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Department of Psychiatry

PGY IV Residents Graduation Papers 1999-2006

1999
Catherine Birndorf: Psychiatric Symptoms, Functional Impairment and Attitude toward Mental Health Treatment among Obstetrical Patients

Riccardo Cruciani: Potential Novel Strategy for Treatment of Opioid Withdrawal

Laura Downs: PMS, Psychosis, and Culpability: Sound or Misguided Defense?

Mark Green: The Phenomenology of Obsessions and Delusions: A Case Study

Lauri Liskin: Law Enforcement Officers and the Mentally Ill: Educational Bridges and Gaps

John Meyers: The Theory of No-Self: Buddhism & Psychology

Joseph Murray: Voyeurism in Group Dynamic Psychotherapy


2000
Ayodele Adeigbola: Cyclic Psychosis Associated with Menstruation: A Case Report

Bezalel Dantz: Osteoporosis and Depression

Tracey Irvin: Legal, Ethical and Clinical Implications of Prescribing Involuntary, Life-Threatening Treatment: The Case of the Sunshine Kid

Pamela Kenworthy: PTSD and Functional Neuroimaging

Francis Lee: The Cellular and Molecular Biology of the Nerve Growth Factor Receptor

Nancy Needell: Sexual Preoccupation in Hasidic Jewish Patients

Richard Oddy: The Relationship between Compulsive Sexual Behavior, Promiscuity, Psychopathology and Individual Psychodynamic Factors in Homosexual Men

Lori Simon: Dissociative Disorders in a General Clinic Population

Cynthia Vitko: Partial Parity: Is it Progress for Mental Health?


2001
Andrew Bennett: Effect of Atypical Neuroleptics on Appetite

Lisa Berman: The Role of Ultra-low Dose Naltrexone in Opiate Detoxification

Pamela Buchbinder: Bringing up Baby: Sis vs. Trans: Theories of Transgender

Daria Colombo: Psychoanalysis and the Catholic Church: The Role of Father Gemelli in Shaping ItalyÕs Response to FreudÕs Work, 1925 Ð 1953

David Fedoronko: A Novel Approach to Opioid Detoxification

Jill Jacobson: Topiramate for Clozapine Ð Induced Weight Gain: A Pilot Study.

Jason Kim: Computational Modeling of Psychopathology and Synaptic Plasticity

Lorraine Marshall: Family Therapy

Rebecca Smith Trials and Tabulations: A Critique of Clinical Trials Research


2002
Rebecca Adams: Boundary Violations in Psychotherapy: Ethical, Clinical and Risk Management Perspectives

Gary Brendel: Affect Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder

Greg Dillon: Illness in the Training Psychiatrist

Chris Kauffman: Outcome and Cost-Analysis of Commonly Utilized Diagnostic Tests in Delirium

Jeffrey Schulden: Psychiatric Illness in Survivors of Torture

Khakasa Wapenyi: Herbal Remedies, HIV Disease and Psychiatry


2003
Osman Ali The role of the Imam in meeting the counseling needs of Muslim communities in the United States.

Jennifer Cooper: Clinical Correlates of Migraine in Bipolar Patients.

Beth Judge: Subliminal priming and the Unconscious

Doonam Kim: Who Kills whom and Why? A Study on homicide in Brooklyn from 1991-1993

Charles Lilly: Psychotropic medication in homicide victims

Laurie Malkoff: An examination of adrenal enzyme activity in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Rory Marraccini: A meta analysis of 3 Korean adoptees: A review of adoption theory

Sandra Park: Psychoanalysis in Introductory Psychology Textbooks

A.Valentine Raiteri: Hypoactive Delirium: Delirium in patients seen by the consult-liaison service for depression


2004
Samantha Boardman : The lunatic asylum of BlackwellÕs Island

Anna Chapman : Correlation between therapist adherence and outcome in psychodynamic treatment of panic disorders

Adam Estevez A fresh look at the pharm: PGY 2 psychopharmacology emendations

Peter Freed : Towards an integrated neurobiological-psychological model of crying

Tammy Gotlieb : The Influence of the Menstrual Cycle on Lithium and Sertraline Blood Levels

Todd Loftus The Common Metabolic Syndromes of Atypical Anti-psychotics and Antiretroviral Therapy of HIV

Alison Lomonaco : Correlation between therapist adherence and outcome in psychodynamic treatment of panic disorders

Oren Messeri: Shared Psychotic Disorder:Review of the concept, case presentation, and proposal for DSM IV

Nicole Regent : The Influence of the Menstrual Cycle on Lithium and Sertraline Blood Levels

Julia Samton: The clock drawing test: Diagnostic, functional and neuroimaging correlates in older medically ill adults

Christine Truman: Self-reported treatment emergent affective switch associated with antidepressant use in the STEP 500


2005
Justine Donovan: Personality Disorders, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Medication Management

David Galarneau: Antidepressant treatment patterns in a methadone maintenance clinic targeting young adults

Andrew Gerber: Assessing the Quality of Randomized Controlled Trials of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Nikki Gordon-Skovby: New recommendations for monitoring with atypical antipsychotics.

Erika Marshall: Personality disorders, dialectical behavioral therapy, and medication management.

Joseph Matta: Posterior cortical atrophy presenting as anxiety and depression

Lori Specher-Sidman: How much are we worth? Fee setting dynamics in the PGY IV resident.


2006
Natasha H. Chriss: Nonverbal communication of affect in music and psychoanalysis

Christina C.Dziedzic: Predictors of improvement for patients with schizophrenia in a social learning program

Diana Feldman: Preliminary evidence of delusions of theft in non-demented subjects with psychotic depression

Kendall L. Genre: The impact of serotonin reuptake inhibitors on sex hormone blood levels.

Mark J.Petrini: Freud and the Classics

Neala Rafizadeh: Creativity and mental illness: Their relationship and implications for psychiatric treatment

Karen B. Rosenbaum: Personality and attrition in a randomized controlled clinical trial of the treatments of bulimia nervosa in primary care

Charles P. Stowell: Characteristics of medically ill patients with impaired decision-making capacity

Christina A. Treece: Characteristics of medical inpatients with somatoform disorders: a Diagnostic and historical critique

April J. Zhu: The Little Emperor: ChinaÕs Only Child Policy

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