David C. Steffens, MD, MHS

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Division Head

Department / Division:
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences / Geriatric Psychiatry

Address:
DUMC 3903
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-684-3746

Office Telephone:
919-684-3746

Fax Telephone:
919-681-7668

• MD, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, 1988

• Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, 1992

• MHS, Duke University Medical Center, 2000

Clinical Interests:
Affective and cognitive disorders in the elderly

Research Interests:

                 Geriatric Affective Disorders

                 Geriatric Cognitive Disorders

                      Alzheimer's Disease

                              ECT

Representative Publications:
Steffens DC, Krystal AD, Sibert TE, Moore SD, Weiner RD. Cost Effectiveness of Maintenance ECT. Convulsive Ther 1995;11:283-284 (letter). (1995)

Breitner JCS, Welsh KA, Gau BA, McDonald WM, Steffens DC, Saunders AM, Magruder KM, Helms MJ, Plasman BL, Folstein MF, Brandt J, Robinette CD, Page WF. Alzheimer's disease in the National Academy of Science-National Research Council registry of aging twin veterans. III. Detection of cases, longitudinal results, and observations on twin concordance. Arch Neurol 1995;52:763-771. (1995)

Steffens DC, Tupler LA, Krishnan KRR. The neurostructural/neurofunctional basis of depression/mania. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 1993;6:22-26. (1993)

Steffens DC, Burke JR, Welsh KA, Helms MJ, Folstein MF, Brandt J, McDonald WM, Breitner JCS. Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease in epidemiologic studies by staged review of clinical data (in press).