James G. Barbee, MD

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	James G. Barbee, MD George C. Dunn MD Professor Professor of Pharmacology Professor of Neuroscience LSU Behavioral Science Center 3450 Chestnut Street 3rd Floor New Orleans, LA 70115 (504) 412-1580 jbarbe@lsuhsc.edu Website
Degrees	MD - 1978 Tulane University
Bio	Current research projects involve the following: (1) clinical trial of a variety of novel anxiolytics and antidepressants in Phase I-V of the approval process, (2) nosological studies of anxiety and affective disorders, including comorbidity, symptomatology, and long-term outcome, and (3) development of novel memory paradigms for utilization in humans in the testing of nootropic drugs, ultimately to be used in studies of the psychopharmacological treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Research Interests	Clinical Pharmacology of Psychoactive Drugs
Selected Publications	Barbee JG, Jaber N, Lamotrigine as an Augmentation Agent in Treatment-Resistant Depression., Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 63(8):737-741, 2002. Constans JI, Barbee JG, Townsend MH, Leffler H, Stability of worry content in GAD patients: A descriptive study., Journal of Anxiety Disorders 16(3):311-319, 2002. Townsend MH, Barbee JG, et al., Treatment of borderline personality disorder with mood instability with divalproex sodium: series of ten cases., Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology 21(2):249-51, 2001. Townsend MH, Weissbecker KA, Barbee JG, Pena JM, Snider LM, Tynes LL, Tynes SF, Boudoin C, Green-Leibovitz MI, Winstead DK, Compulsive Behavior in Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Obsessive -Compulsive Disorder., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 187, 697-699, 1999. Barbee JG, Billings CK, Bologna NB, Townsend MH, A Follow-Up Study of DSM-III-R Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Syndromal and Subsyndromal Major Depression., Journal of Affective Disorders (in press), .
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George C. Dunn MD Professor Professor of Pharmacology Professor of Neuroscience

George C. Dunn MD Professor
Professor of Pharmacology
Professor of Neuroscience