Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Psychiatry
Dr. Roger K. Pitman, MD
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Roger Pitman practices Psychiatry. He went to medical school at Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a top medical university. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1/12 in Research/PrimaryCare. He has 15 awards "Castle Connollys Americas Top Doctors", "Lifetime Achievement Award", "Exceptional Research Mentorship Award", "Fellow", "Distinguished Life Fellow", "Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement", "Distinguished Fellow", "Honorary A.M. (Master of Arts) degree", "Member", "Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the Field of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder", "Research Career Development Award", "Member, Alpha Omega Alpha", "Associate Member", "Bassett Physics Prize" and "Whos Who in the World". Roger K. Pitman, MD is a published physician. He has 101 publications published. The most current publication "Prospective study of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression following trauma."
Publications
- Harnessing Reconsolidation to Treat Mental Disorders.
- Pharmacological blockade of memory reconsolidation in posttraumatic stress disorder: Three negative psychophysiological studies.
- Single dose propranolol does not affect physiologic or emotional reactivity to smoking cues.
- Prereactivation propranolol fails to reduce skin conductance reactivity to prepared fear-conditioned stimuli.
- Stress, PTSD, and dementia.
- Interactions of time of day and sleep with between-session habituation and extinction memory in young adult males.
- Pilot Study of the Effect of Lipophilic vs. Hydrophilic Beta-Adrenergic Blockers Being Taken at Time of Intracardiac Defibrillator Discharge on Subsequent PTSD Symptoms.
- Extinction of conditioned fear is better learned and recalled in the morning than in the evening.
- Cortical and cerebellar modulation of autonomic responses to loud sounds.
- Psychophysiologic reactivity, subjective distress, and their associations with PTSD diagnosis.
- The efficacy of initial hydrocortisone administration at preventing posttraumatic distress in adult trauma patients: a randomized trial.
- Learning and reconsolidation implicate different synaptic mechanisms.
- Biological studies of post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Reprint of: Resting cerebral metabolism correlates with skin conductance and functional brain activation during fear conditioning.
- Resting cerebral metabolism correlates with skin conductance and functional brain activation during fear conditioning.
- Trauma reactivation under the influence of propranolol decreases posttraumatic stress symptoms and disorder: 3 open-label trials.
- Exaggerated Activation of Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex During Cognitive Interference: A Monozygotic Twin Study of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.
- Systemic mifepristone blocks reconsolidation of cue-conditioned fear; propranolol prevents this effect.
- Drs gilbertson and pitman reply.
- Effect of acute posttrauma propranolol on PTSD outcome and physiological responses during script-driven imagery.
- A recent VA rules change and the traumatic event requirement in PTSD.
- Point/Counterpoint. Posttraumatic stress disorder versus traumatic brain injury.
- Posttraumatic stress disorder and dementia: what is the origin of the association?
- Altered Processing of Contextual Information during Fear Extinction in PTSD: An fMRI Study.
- Neurobiological basis of failure to recall extinction memory in posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Functional neuroimaging of reward circuitry responsivity to monetary gains and losses in posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Resting metabolic activity in the cingulate cortex and vulnerability to posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Extinction memory is impaired in schizophrenia.
- Preventing postsurgical dissatisfaction syndrome after rhinoplasty with propranolol: a pilot study.
- Sleep promotes generalization of extinction of conditioned fear.
- Event-related potentials to auditory stimuli in monozygotic twins discordant for combat: association with PTSD.
- Evidence for acquired pregenual anterior cingulate gray matter loss from a twin study of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Impaired reproduction of three-dimensional objects by cocaine-dependent subjects.
- Intensity dependence of auditory P2 in monozygotic twins discordant for Vietnam combat: associations with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- A role for the human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in fear expression.
- Physiologic reactivity to startling tones in female Vietnam nurse veterans with PTSD.
- New findings on the neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Dorsal anterior cingulate function in posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Configural cue performance in identical twins discordant for posttraumatic stress disorder: theoretical implications for the role of hippocampal function.
- Recall of fear extinction in humans activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus in concert.
- Physiologic responses to loud tones in individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
- Fear conditioning and extinction: influence of sex and menstrual cycle in healthy humans.
- Neurocognitive function in monozygotic twins discordant for combat exposure: relationship to posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, and hippocampal function in PTSD.
- Assessment of posttraumatic stress disorder in Cambodian refugees using the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale: psychometric properties and symptom severity.
- Subtle neurologic compromise as a vulnerability factor for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder: results of a twin study.
- Combat effects on mental health: the more things change, the more they remain the same.
- Thickness of ventromedial prefrontal cortex in humans is correlated with extinction memory.
- Context modulation of memory for fear extinction in humans.
- A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex responses to overtly presented fearful faces in posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Conceptually driven pharmacologic approaches to acute trauma.
- Reevaluating the association between emergency department heart rate and the development of posttraumatic stress disorder: A public health approach.
- Psychophysiological responding during script-driven imagery in people reporting abduction by space aliens.
- PTSD arousal and depression symptoms associated with increased right-sided parietal EEG asymmetry.
- Cavum septum pellucidum in monozygotic twins discordant for combat exposure: relationship to posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Regional cerebral blood flow in the amygdala and medial prefrontal cortex during traumatic imagery in male and female Vietnam veterans with PTSD.
- Risk factors and outcome in ambulatory assault victims presenting to the acute emergency department setting: implications for secondary prevention studies in PTSD.
- Hippocampal function in posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Treatment preferences and determinants in victims of sexual and physical assault.
- Smaller hippocampal volume predicts pathologic vulnerability to psychological trauma.
- Memory distortion in people reporting abduction by aliens.
- Psychophysiology of post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Pilot study of secondary prevention of posttraumatic stress disorder with propranolol.
- Event-related potentials to auditory stimuli in female Vietnam nurse veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Neurological soft signs in individuals with pathological gambling.
- Does reconsolidation occur in humans: a reply.
- Will reconsolidation blockade offer a novel treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder?
- Is trauma a causal agent of psychopathologic symptoms in posttraumatic stress disorder? Findings from identical twins discordant for combat exposure.
- Stress reduction correlates with structural changes in the amygdala.
- Basal and suppressed salivary cortisol in female Vietnam nurse veterans with and without PTSD.
- Probing reward function in posttraumatic stress disorder: expectancy and satisfaction with monetary gains and losses.
- Presence and acquired origin of reduced recall for fear extinction in PTSD: results of a twin study.
- The panic attack-posttraumatic stress disorder model: applicability to orthostatic panic among Cambodian refugees.
- Stress hormones and post-traumatic stress disorder in civilian trauma victims: a longitudinal study. Part II: the adrenergic response.
- Stress hormones and post-traumatic stress disorder in civilian trauma victims: a longitudinal study. Part I: HPA axis responses.
- Effect of post-retrieval propranolol on psychophysiologic responding during subsequent script-driven traumatic imagery in post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Clarifying the origin of biological abnormalities in PTSD through the study of identical twins discordant for combat exposure.
- Volume of cerebellar vermis in monozygotic twins discordant for combat exposure: lack of relationship to post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Effects of beta blockade, PTSD diagnosis, and explicit threat on the extinction and retention of an aversively conditioned response.
- Fear extinction in rats: implications for human brain imaging and anxiety disorders.
- Orbitofrontal thickness, retention of fear extinction, and extraversion.
- Probing reward function in post-traumatic stress disorder with beautiful facial images.
- Selectively reduced regional cortical volumes in post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Prospective evaluation of plasma cortisol in recent trauma survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Performance on visuospatial copying tasks in individuals with chronic posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Somatic panic-attack equivalents in a community sample of Rwandan widows who survived the 1994 genocide.
- Physiologic responses to sudden, loud tones in monozygotic twins discordant for combat exposure: association with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Persistence and change of PTSD symptomatology--a longitudinal co-twin control analysis of the Vietnam Era Twin Registry.
- Absence of selected neurological soft signs in Vietnam nurse veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Investigating the pathogenesis of posttraumatic stress disorder with neuroimaging.
- Multivariate assessment of explicit memory function in combat veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Prospective study of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression following trauma.
- Physiologic reactivity to startling tones in women with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Neurologic soft signs in chronic posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Auditory startle response in trauma survivors with posttraumatic stress disorder: a prospective study.
- De novo conditioning in trauma-exposed individuals with and without posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Persistent posttraumatic stress disorder following September 11 in patients with bipolar disorder.
- Psychophysiologic response during script-driven imagery as an outcome measure in posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Physiologic responses to loud tones in Israeli patients with posttraumatic stress disorder.
- Psychiatric complications during flooding therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder.
Schools
University of Vermont College of Medicine
City Hospital
Tufts Va
Beth Israel HospHarvard
Doctors Specialties
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Castle Connolly’s America’s Top Doctors
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Exceptional Research Mentorship Award
- Fellow
- Distinguished Life Fellow
- Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement
- Distinguished Fellow
- Honorary A.M. (Master of Arts) degree
- Member
- Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement in the Field of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Research Career Development Award
- Member, Alpha Omega Alpha
- Associate Member
- Bassett Physics Prize
- Who’s Who in the World
Education
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Harvard Medical School -
Tufts Medical Center -
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Hospital
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1831282656 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | PITMAN |
| First Name Of The Provider | ROGER |
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