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Examples of research and clinical interests of faculty and residents:

  • The relationship of depression to morbidity and mortality in patients with congestive heart failure
  • The effect of sertraline on outcomes in post-myocardial infarction patients who develop depressio.
  • The effect of evidenced-based guidelines for treating delirium on length-of-stay in MICU patients
  • The role of brain serotonin function on coronary heart disease risk factors
  • Neuropsychiatric manifestations of disease in HIV patients
  • Modafinil in atypical depression
  • Gabitril for PTSD
  • Cognitive dysfunction post-CABG
  • Post-hip fracture delirium
  • COPD and depression
  • Algorithm for ICU treatment of delirium
  • Effects of smoking on memory loss secondary to ECT
  • Sleep disorders
  • Spirituality in elderly medically ill
  • Predictive models for ECT in unipolar depression
  • Bleeding rates in CABG patients on SSRIs
  • Mathematical models of slow wave sleep