DR. ADAM CHRISTIAN TRIPP, MD PHD
Psychiatric at Craig St, Pittsburgh, PA

Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry (Psychiatry)

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Anxiety Disorders, Psychiatric Consultation, Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy

Anxiety Disorders, Bipolar Disorder, Conversion Disorder, Depressive Disorders, Personality Disorders, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Psychiatric Consultation, Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy

Psychiatry, 2011

Healthgrades Honor Roll, Marc Hollender Award in Psychiatry. Psychiatry Department, SUNY Upstate Medical University. Syracuse, New York., 2006, Student Citizen Scholarship, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, 2005, Society for Biological Psychiatry Meeting 2012 Top Poster Award Finalist. Philadelphia, PA., 2012, Research Colloquium for Junior Investigators. American Psychiatric Association. Annual APA Meeting, Honolulu, HA., 2011, Alpha Omega Alpha, Gamma Chapter, Best Research Poster Award, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York, 2005, NCDEU 2010 New Investigator Award Program. NCDEU 2010 Meeting, Boca Raton, FL., 2010, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Psychiatry Department Outstanding Graduating Resident. Pittsburgh, PA., 2011, John Bernard Henry Endowed Scholarship Award, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, 2006, SUNY Chancellors Award for Student Excellence. SUNY Upstate Medical University. Syracuse, New York, 2006, NIMH Brain Camp II. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Banbury Center, NY., 2010, APIRE Janssen Resident Psychiatric Research Scholars. American Psychiatric Association. Annual APA meeting, New Orleans, LA., 2010, APA/Lilly Resident Research Award. American Psychiatric Association. Annual APA Meeting, Honolulu, HA., 2011, A. Geno Andreatta Student Affairs Award, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, 2006, Neurobiology of Disease, 2011, Academic Psychiatry, 2009, CNS Spectrums, 2009, General Hospital Psychiatry, 2010, Primary Care Companion to the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2009, Academic Psychiatry, 2008, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2011, CNS Spectrums, 2008, General Hospital Psychiatry, 2011, American Journal of Psychiatry, 2012

English

Some patients see me primarily for management of their psychiatric medications. I can address your questions with expertise, I am also a neuroscientist and actively engaged in research trying to understand the neurobiology of mood and anxiety disorders. Currently there is an unprecedented choice of medications to assist in treatment of many psychiatric problems, and many of these have fewer hazards and side effects than their predecessors. Many people have come to see psychiatrists as the pill pushers of the mental health system perhaps with justification. However, you will find that I do not follow this pattern. Rarely do I consider medication mandatory for the treatment of any given person, at any given time. Equally rarely however will I tell you that there is no medication which could possibly help relieve your difficulties. Most of the time the question of medication falls into a grey area between these extremes.