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Mark H. Townsend, MD

Professor and Vice Chair for General Psychiatry

LSU Behavioral Science Center
3450 Chestnut Street
3rd Floor
New Orleans, LA 70115
Phone: (504) 412-1580

mtowns@lsuhsc.edu

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Research Interests

Psychopharmacology and phenomenology of mood and psychotic disorders
Clinical relationships among comorbid anxiety disorders
Gay and lesbian medical issues

Selected Publications

Townsend MH and Baier MB, Are high initial doses of olanzapine required to reduce agitation associated with schizophrenia?, Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology 5, 85-86, 2001.

Townsend MH, Cambre KM, Barbee JG, Treatment of borderline personality disorder with mood instability with divalproex sodium: Series of 10 cases., Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology 21, 249-251, 2001.

Penn DL, Combs D, Ritchie M, Francis J, Cassisi J, Morris S, Townsend MH, Emotion recognition in schizophrenia: Further investigation of specific versus generalized performance deficit models., Journal of Abnormal Psychology 109, 3, 512-516, 2000.

Constans JI, Barbee JG, Townsend MH and Leffler H, Stability of worry-content in GAD patients: A descriptive study., Journal of Anxiety Disorders , (in press).

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).