Professor, Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Psychiatry
Dr. Barbara J. Coffey, MD
Barbara Coffey is an expert in the field of Psychiatry. She studied medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Tufts University School of Medicine is ranked 49/52 in Research/PrimaryCare. She over the years received 5 awards: "America's Top Doctors", "Top Doctors: New York Metro Area", "New York Magazine: Top Doctors", "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare" and "Super Doctor". Dr. Barbara J. Coffey is a published physician as well. She has 91 publications published. The latest was: Disentangling the overlap between Tourette''s disorder and ADHD.
Publications
- Staying Up at Night: Overlapping Bipolar and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Symptoms in an Adolescent with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- The Impact of Psychosocial Stressors on Treatment of a Teenage Girl with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Trichotillomania, and Anxiety.
- Negative Symptoms in a Depressed Teen? Primary Hyperparathyroidism and its Psychiatric Manifestations.
- Pharmacotherapeutic Challenges in Treatment of a Child with "The Triad" of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Tourette's Disor...
- Emotional dysregulation in a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder and anxiety: psychopharmacological stategies.
- Tics and Tourette Syndrome.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
- Current pharmacotherapeutic approaches for the treatment of Tourette syndrome.
- Children and adolescents with Tourette's Disorder in the USA versus Argentina: behavioral differences may reflect cultural factors.
- Drug-induced movement Disorders and Syndenham's chorea in an antipsychotic-treated young child.
- Olanzapine-induced agranulocytosis in an adolescent male with psychosis.
- New onset of psychotic symptoms in an adolescent with pervasive developmental Disorder, not otherwise specified.
- Streptococcal upper respiratory tract infections and exacerbations of tic and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: a prospective longitudinal study.
- Adolescent with treatment-refractory schizophrenia and clozapine-induced cardiomyopathy managed with high-dose olanzapine.
- Bipolar Disorder and valproate-induced hyperammonemic encephalopathy in an adolescent with diabetes.
- Obsessive-compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Disorder: where are we now?
- Bipolar Disorder or substance-induced mood Disorder in an adolescent?
- Testing tic suppression: comparing the effects of dexmethylphenidate to no medication in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder and Tou...
- Obsessional and atypical tic symptoms in an adolescent with complex Tourette's Disorder and atypical pervasive developmental Disorder not otherwise specified.
- Use of metformin to control clozapine-associated weight gain in an adolescent with schizoaffective Disorder.
- Compulsive spitting in a child with pervasive developmental Disorder and Tourette's Disorder: tic or compulsion?
- Aripiprazole in children and adolescents with Tourette's Disorder: an open-label safety and tolerability study.
- Developmental and behavioral Disorders grown up: Tourette's Disorder.
- Hyperprolactinemia in an adolescent with psychotic Disorder on risperidone.
- Executive function deficits, attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder, tics, and obsessive-compulsive Disorder in an adolescent.
- Complex tics and complex management in a case of severe Tourette's Disorder (TD) in an adolescent.
- Psychosis or atypical neuroleptic malignant syndrome in an adolescent?
- Aripiprazole in children and adolescents with Tourette Disorder with and without explosive outbursts.
- Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric Disorders associated with streptococcus: comparison of diagnosis and treatment in the community and at a specialty clinic.
- Atypical neuroleptic malignant syndrome in an adolescent.
- Atomoxetine treatment of ADHD in children with comorbid Tourette syndrome.
- Treatment of co-morbid obsessive compulsive Disorder, mood, and anxiety Disorders.
- Reexamining Tic persistence and Tic-associated impairment in Tourette's Disorder: findings from a naturalistic follow-up study.
- General psychiatry residents' perceptions of specialized training in the field of mental retardation.
- Habit reversal versus supportive psychotherapy for Tourette's Disorder: a randomized controlled trial.
- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive Disorder: fact or artifact?
- A cytokine study in children and adolescents with Tourette''s Disorder.
- Contemporary assessment and pharmacotherapy of Tourette syndrome.
- Tourette Disorder and ADHD.
- Is juvenile obsessive-compulsive Disorder a developmental subtype of the Disorder? A review of the pediatric literature.
- Tourette's Disorder with and without obsessive-compulsive Disorder in adults: are they different?
- Distinguishing illness severity from tic severity in children and adolescents with Tourette's Disorder.
- Anxiety Disorders and tic severity in juveniles with Tourette's Disorder.
- Impact of tic Disorders on ADHD outcome across the life cycle: findings from a large group of adults with and without ADHD.
- Tics, anxiety, and possible PANDAS in an adolescent.
- Mood and anxiety symptoms in an adolescent with Pervasive Developmental Disorder Not Otherwise Specified and moderate mental retardation.
- Informativeness of structured diagnostic interviews in the identification of Tourette's Disorder in referred youth.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Tourette's Disorder, or pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric Disorders associated with Streptococcus in an adolescent? Diagnostic and t...
- Postraumatic stress Disorder and reactive attachment Disorder: outcome in an adolescent.
- Probing striato-thalamic function in obsessive-compulsive Disorder and Tourette syndrome using neuroimaging methods.
- A double-blind comparison of desipramine and placebo in children and adolescents with chronic tic Disorder and comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder.
- Does comorbid attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder impact the clinical expression of pediatric obsessive-compulsive Disorder?
- The course of Tourette's Disorder: a literature review.
- Clinical correlates of obsessive compulsive Disorder in children and adolescents referred to specialized and non-specialized clinical settings.
- Disentangling the overlap between Tourette''s Disorder and ADHD.
- PANDAS and paroxysms: a case of conversion Disorder?
- Advanced pediatric psychopharmacology.
- Asperger's Disorder and co-morbid bipolar Disorder: diagnostic and treatment challenges.
- The 4-year course of tic Disorders in boys with attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder.
- Developmental aspects of obsessive compulsive Disorder: findings in children, adolescents, and adults.
- A quick and reliable screening measure for OCD in youth: reliability and validity of the obsessive compulsive scale of the Child Behavior Checklist.
- Clinical case presentation: therapeutic challenges in adolescent-onset bipolar Disorder.
- Treatment of juvenile-onset bipolar Disorder in a child with Turner's syndrome.
- Trichotillomania and co-morbid psychiatric Disorders in a 10-year-old boy.
- Phenomenology of intentional repetitive behaviors in obsessive-compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Disorder.
- Comorbidity, Tourette syndrome, and anxiety Disorders.
- First-episode psychosis in an adolescent with seizure Disorder and Tetralogy of Fallot.
- Depressive symptoms and clinical status during the Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters (TASA) Study.
- Dysphoria associated with neuroleptic withdrawal in an adolescent with Tourette's Disorder.
- Loxapine treatment in an autistic child with aggressive behavior: therapeutic challenges.
- Sensory phenomena in obsessive-compulsive Disorder and Tourette's Disorder.
- Phenomenological differences appearing with repetitive behaviours in obsessive-compulsive Disorder and Gilles de la Tourette''s syndrome.
- Adolescent major depression: challenges to treatment.
- Psychopharmacology in the school setting: therapeutic challenges in an adolescent with attention deficit hyperactivity Disorder, possible bipolar Disorder, and other c...
- Tourette's Disorder and related problems: a review and update.
- Psychosurgery for self-injurious behavior in Tourette's Disorder.
- The Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters study (TASA): predictors of suicidal events in an open treatment trial.
- Behavioral and emotional aspects of Tourette syndrome.
- Atomoxetine treatment in children and adolescents with ADHD and comorbid tic Disorders.
- Tourette's Disorder.
- Disentangling chronological age from age of onset in children and adolescents with obsessive--compulsive Disorder.
- Behavioral effects of levetiracetam mitigated by pyridoxine.
- Catatonia in an adolescent with Asperger's Disorder.
- The challenges of psychopharmacological management of children with severe developmental disabilities.
- Regarding "antibiotic prophylaxis with azithromycin or penicillin for childhood-onset neuropsychiatric Disorders".
- Response to duloxetine in a depressed, treatment-resistant adolescent female.
- Anxiolytics for children and adolescents: traditional and new drugs.
- Renal failure in a depressed adolescent on escitalopram.
- Pharmacokinetics of benzodiazepines and psychostimulants in children.
- Pain insensitivity in schizophrenia. Case report and review of the literature.
Schools
Tufts University
Conditions Treated
- Adjustment Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Bipolar Disorder
Doctors Specialties
- Pediatric Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Top Doctors: New York Metro Area
- New York Magazine: Top Doctors
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
- Super Doctor
Education
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Tufts Medical Center -
Boston University Medical Center -
Tufts University School of Medicine
Hospital
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Mount Sinai Hospital -
Bellevue Hospital Center -
NYU Langone Medical Center
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