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Stephen Cox, MD, Psychiatry, Lexington, KY

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Psychiatry • Lexington, KY

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  • Office

    3135 Custer Dr
    Stephen M Cox MD PSC
    Lexington, KY 40517
    Phone+1 859-272-0991

Summary

  • For more than 35 years, Dr. Cox has sub-specialized in treating persons who are bothered by anxiety, worry, and stress. He invented, patented and commercialized the Amazon Bcalm medical device which is designed to stop claustrophobic panic attacks without medicine by rearranging the gases in the air we breathe. In the last 15 years, he learned from Dr. David Sinclair himself how to use The Sinclair Method (TSM) for treating alcohol-use disorder, previously known as alcoholism, weight reduction, and narcotic addiction. Dr. Cox is committed to listening to his patients, treating them as individuals, and answering all of their questions.

    • Medical Lexington | Board-Certified Psychiatrist | Stephen M. Cox MD

    For medical and psychiatric treatments, count on Stephen M. Cox MD, a board-certified psychiatrist in Lexington, KY. We are here to help you get back on track.

Clinical Expertise

  • Use pharmacologic extinction to help persons overcome unwanted but irresistable behaviors such as alcohol overuse, gambling, shopliftting, narcotic addiction, internet porn addiction.

Education & Training

  • University of Kentucky
    University of KentuckyB.S., Nuclear Chemistry, 1979
  • University of Kentucky College of Medicine
    University of Kentucky College of MedicineResidency, Psychiatry, 1975 - 1978
  • University of Kentucky College of Medicine
    University of Kentucky College of MedicineClass of 1975

Certifications & Licensure

  • KY State Medical License
    KY State Medical License 1975 - 2025
  • FL State Medical License
    FL State Medical License 1977 - 1978
  • American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Three Best Rated Psychiatrists Lexington Kentucky Three Best Rated, 2024
  • Heroes in the Fight (sm) Nominee NAMI, 2007
  • Best Shrink in Lexington ACE, 2004

Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles

  • Terrorism Fear What You Can Do To Alleviate It  
    Stephen M. Cox, M.D., National Anxiety Foundation, 1/1/2002
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder - A Treatable Disease  
    Stephen M. Cox, M.D., National Anxiety Foundation, 1/1/1996
  • “Single Ion Gas Chromatographic/Mass Spectroscopic Quantitative Analysis of Environmental CO2 in Agoraphobic Environments”,  
    Cox, S., Lawrence L., Sheehan D., Anxiety, 1994
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Abstracts/Posters

  • An In Vivo, Controlled Study of the Clinical Benefit for Persons with Panic Disorder of Breathing Air Purified of Elevated Environmental Carbon Dioxide By a Pregnancy ...
    Cox SM, Lowell J. Lawrence (Co-Author), NCDEU Meeting, National Institutes of Health, Boca Raton, FL, 1/1/2005
  • Single Ion GC/MS Quantitative Analysis of Environmental CO2 in Panic Disorder
    Stephen Cox, Jeff Lawrence and David Sheehan, Annals of Clinical Psychiatry; Multiple Presentations, Multiple Locations, 1996, 1997, 1/1/1997
  • Single Ion Gas Chromatographic/Mass Spectroscopic Quantitative Analysis of Environmental CO2 in Agoraphobic Environments
    Cox SM, Annual National Meeting of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatry; NCDEU Meeting, NIMH, National Institutes of Health, Boca Raton, FL, 1996; Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1996, 1/1/1996
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Lectures

  • An Anxiety Disorders Overview 
    University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY - 1/8/2015
  • A Close Look at Panic Disorder 
    University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY - 1/8/2015
  • How to Treat Alcoholism, Cocaine Addiction, Compulsive Gambling and other mu-Opioid Mediated Addictions the Right Way by Prescribing Naltrexone the Wrong Way. 
    Multiple Locations, 2011, 2015 - 1/8/2015
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Other

  • Single Ion Gas Chromatographic/Mass Spectroscopic Quantitative Analysis of Environmental CO2 in Agoraphobic Environments (United Press International Interview). 
    Cox SM, American Academy of Clinical Psychiatry
    Fort Lauderdale, FL - 1/1/1996
  • Single Ion Gas Chromatographic/Mass Spectroscopic Quantitative Analysis of Environmental CO2 in Agoraphobic Environments (Associated Press Interview). 
    Stephen Cox, Jeff Lawrence and David Sheehan, Anxiety
    1/1/1995
  • Panic Disorder (taped at the 1992 National Scientific Assembly of the American College of Emergency Physicians) 
    National Public Radio: DocTalk Benjamin Wedro M.D., DocTalk Benjamin Wedro M.D.
    Seattle, WA - 1/16/1992
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Authored Content

  • Panic DisorderJanuary 2004

Press Mentions

  • Lexington’s Three Best Rated Award-Winning Psychiatrist, Dr. Stephen Michael Cox Explains About Social Anxiety Disorder
    Lexington’s Three Best Rated Award-Winning Psychiatrist, Dr. Stephen Michael Cox Explains About Social Anxiety DisorderApril 18th, 2020

Research History

  • Principal InvestigatorAn In Vivo, Controlled Study of the Clinical Benefit for Persons with Panic Disorder of Breathing Air Purified of Elevated Environmental Carbon Dioxide By a Pregnancy Safe, Handheld, Respiratory CO2 Scrubber. Evidence of a Causal Relationship in Panic Disorder between (a.) the High Carbon Dioxide.1974 - 2019

Professional Memberships

  • Kentucky Medical Association
    Member

Other Languages

  • French

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