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

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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), .

Additional Info

Publications at PubMed