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Office
245 West 107th Street
New York, NY 10025Phone+1 917-576-8172
Summary
- I am a board certified psychiatrist on the faculty of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where I do research on Child Psychiatric Epidemiology and Mathematical Models in Psychiatry. My clinical work focuses on PTSD and Complicated Grief, as well as attending on an in-patient unit. I also serve as an experts witness related to PTSD, Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, and Psychiatry and the Law.
Clinical Expertise
- Bipolar disorders , Behavioral health, Suicide, Mathematical modeling, Post-traumatic stress disorder
Education & Training
- Columbia University School of Public HealthM.P.H., 1998
- New York Presbyterian Hospital (Cornell Campus)/WestchesterResidency, Psychiatry, 1989 - 1992
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiInternship, Transitional Year, 1988 - 1989
- Yale School of MedicineClass of 1988
- Columbia CollegeB.A., Mathematics, 1979
Certifications & Licensure
- NY State Medical License 1992 - 2025
- FL State Medical License 2016 - 2018
- CT State Medical License 1992 - 1998
- American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology Psychiatry
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 73 citationsOverlooked and Underserved: “Action Signs” for Identifying Children With Unmet Mental Health NeedsPeter S. Jensen, Eliot Goldman, David R. Offord, Elizabeth J. Costello, Robert M. Friedman
Pediatrics. 2011-11-01 - 87 citationsCombined prolonged exposure therapy and paroxetine for PTSD related to the World Trade Center attack: a randomized controlled trial.Franklin R. Schneier, Yuval Neria, Martina Pavlicova, Elizabeth A. Hembree, Eun Jung Suh
The American Journal of Psychiatry. 2012-01-01 - 135 citationsCan biological tests assist prediction of suicide in mood disordersJ. John Mann, Dianne Currier, Barbara Stanley, Maria A. Oquendo, Lawrence Amsel
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology. 2006-08-01
Journal Articles
- Brain activity classifies adolescents with and without a familial history of substance use disordersQiao J, Wang Z, Geronazzo-Alman L, Amsel L, Duarte C, et al, Frontiers in human neuroscience, 1/1/2015
- There is nothing to fear but the amygdala: applying advances in the neuropsychiatry of fear to public policyAmsel, L., Harbo, S., Halberstam, A, Mind and Society, 1/1/2014
- Combined prolonged exposure therapy and paroxetine for PTSD related to the World Trade Center attack: a randomized controlled trialSchneier, F.R., Neria, Y., Pavlicova, M., Hembree, E., Suh, E.J., Amsel, L., and Marshall, R.D., American Journal of Psychiatry, 1/1/2012
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Books/Book Chapters
Abstracts/Posters
- Towards a Mathematical Psychiatry: Neuroeconomics and Game Theory Models of OCDAmsel L, Anxiety Disorders Association of America, 30th Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, 1/1/2010
- Towards a Mathematical Psychiatry - Game Theory Modeling of OCDAmsel, L., and Pipel, A, Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 1/1/2008
- A Game Theory Model of Suicide BehaviorAmsel, L., Pipel, A., and Marshall, R, 12th International Conference on the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk, and Decision Theory, Rome, Italy, 1/1/2006
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Lectures
- Using Behavioral Economics and Game Theory to Model Psychiatric DisordersColumbia University Mailman School of Pubic Health, New York, NY - 1/1/2013
- Toward a Mathematical Psychiatry: The Starvation EquationEvanston, IL - 1/1/2011
- Towards a Mathematical Psychiatry: Rational Modeling of Obsessive Compulsive Repetition (OCR) with Decision and Game theoryEvanston, IL - 1/1/2010
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Other
- Recognizing and Treating Complicated Grief ReactionsAmsel, L., Marshall, R., Dreher, D., and Shear, K, An educational Videotape for mental health Professionals
1/1/2004 - Primary Care Clinicians and the Dilemma of Genetic TestingAmsel, L., Dreher, D., Jennings, B., and Parens, E, Genetic dilemmas in primary care - an educational program
The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY - 1/1/2001 - Abortion and Religious LawAmsel L, MD Thesis
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Press Mentions
- A Clinicians’ Guide to Better Patient CommunicationNovember 12th, 2024
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