Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Director of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry

Clinical Director, Partial Hospitalization Program, Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans

Email:

mtowns@lsuhsc.edu

Psychopharmacology and phenomenology of mood and psychotic disorders; clinical relationships among comorbid anxiety disorders; teaching practices in undergraduate medical education; gay and lesbian medical issues.

Townsend, M.H., Baier, M.B. Are high initial doses of olanzapine required to reduce agitation associated with schizophrenia? Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, in press. 2001, 5, 85-86.

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

Barbee, J.G., Billings, C.K., Bologna, N.B., Townsend, M.H. A follow-up study of
DSM-III-R generalized anxiety disorder with syndromal and subsyndromal major
depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, in press.

Townsend, M.H., Cambre, K.M., Barbee, J.G. Treatment of borderline personality disorder with mood instability with divalproex sodium: Series of 10 cases. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 2001,21, 249-251.

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

Book Chapters:

Townsend, M.H.: Mood disorders, in The Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences, in press. Edited by Aminoff M.J., Daroff R.B. San Diego: Academic Press.

Townsend, M.H. Mood stabilizer pharmacology, in The Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences, in press.

Townsend, M.H.: Phobias, in The Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences, in press. Edited by Aminoff M.J., Daroff R.B. San Diego: Academic Press.

Editorials:

Townsend M.H. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered mental health care providers: therapeutic boundaries, society barriers. Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 2001 5, 85-86.